Category Archives: Biology

How to overhaul peer review and scientific publishing

Many are quick to criticize the peer review process, but are there any viable alternatives?

Anyone who doubts the inefficiencies and flaws of the current peer-review system would do well to read a review article published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (Dec 2011) and evaluated for F1000 by Gary Aston-Jones and David Moorman. Continue reading

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Burdens of the brilliant

Why people desire but reject creative ideas.

Please answer this one-question test: Creativity is A) Good. Continue reading

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