The billionaires’ science club
Private donors wielding large checkbooks are playing an increasingly important role in the funding — and direction — of scientific research. For all the good such gifts are likely to […]
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A field guide to pointless medical research
The ‘race for a cure’ is in many ways a fantasy. If only. Medical research is at best a precarious, plodding mountain climb with many contestants taking dead-end routes. At […]
Data decay
This horrifying graph comes from a paper by Timothy Vines and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, who wanted to get an idea of how the accessibility of scientific […]
