Peer Review
Peer review is a term of art covering a set of practices that collect and apply the judgement of expert reviewers (identified as "expert," not just "knowledgeable�...
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Citing a lack of participation, the British journal Nature said Thursday it was ditching a closely watched online experiment that allowed scientists to comment on their peers' research before publi...
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The Bush administration's plans for saving the northern spotted owl from extinction have flunked a peer review by scientists.Under a contract with the administration, the Society for Conservation B...
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Phoning the well-tanned, Italian-suited conquerors of Manhattan real-estate brokerage is frightening, especially when you’re calling to ask which local agents they admire. â&#...
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Finding out how prescription drugs affect children isn't easy, even for pediatricians, a new study says.
That's because very little research on children and drugs is published in medical j...
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A Texas doctor leaked confidential research to the makers of the popular diabetes drug Avandia weeks before a study was published tying the drug to higher heart risks, the scientific journal Nature...
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A Texas doctor leaked confidential research to the makers of the popular diabetes drug Avandia weeks before a study was published tying the drug to higher heart risks, the scientific journal Nature...
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A doctor leaked confidential research to the makers of the popular diabetes drug Avandia weeks before a study was published tying the drug to higher heart risks, the scientific journal Nature repor...
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Federal health officials used a flawed analysis when they gave preliminary approval to food from cloned animals, a consumer group charged Wednesday.In its report, the Center for Food Safety said th...
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A worldwide scientific effort to catalog every living species has topped the 1 million milestone.Six years into the program the total has reached 1,009,000, researchers report. They hope to complet...
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Health care provider Kaiser Permanente faces a $3 million fine for what state regulators say were haphazard investigations into patient complaints and physician performance. It was the second rebuk...
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Peer Review
Journal ends peer review experiment
