Monthly Archives: June 2011

Retractions: What are they good for?

Posted on June 4, 2011 by

Retraction. It’s perhaps one of the juiciest words in scientific language. One might think of it as the Scarlet Letter of science, a public stamp that can trigger gossip, speculation, whispers… Something went wrong somewhere, and someone is paying for … Continue reading →

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Please standby…

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

We’ll return to regularly scheduled programming… sometime. I am not going to apologize for my lack of blogging this year. I am still here. I have no intentions of giving up blogging. I miss it-not just writing but also reading … Continue reading →

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