Jun
10th
Wed
10th
May
21st
Thu
21st
The RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and CRIA all report dire numbers for piracy and billions lost, numbers which they obtain by… making them up. Seriously, they just pull them out of thin air. I might as well say eliminating software piracy would cause Canada to have more pleasant summers and would increase the bison herd. There’s just as much evidence for that.
May
4th
Mon
4th
Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which neither appears in MEDLINE or has a website, according to The Scientist.
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Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal | blog.bioethics.net
Making it even tougher for students to figure out where they can find reliable information.
Fellow readers, if a fierce book purist like me … can be lured into liking e-books, well, then, I suspect pretty much anybody can.
Jan
14th
Wed
14th
Toward an All E-Textbook Campus :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
Northwest Missouri State University has a track record of innovation when it comes to providing students with their textbooks. They are now trying to move to ebooks, although the business models and availability aren’t always quite right.
Austenbook
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as told via a Facebook newsfeed.
Jan
5th
Mon
5th
“a picture of an actual item as returned in the Mullica Hill branch book drop!”
Dec
30th
Tue
30th
And, fair or not, scientists are likely to find more persuasive the testimony of those they take to be honest and meticulous, Scientists who can’t even do a good literature search may have other as yet unexposed gaps in their practice that render their testimony less credible.
