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Category Archives: Science & Politics
A Bill to Amend the Law of Defamation
The libel reform campaign has yielded a spring crop: a bill to amend the law of defamation was introduced to parliament in the Queen’s Speech on May 10th. This means that legislation to amend the lax libel laws of England and … Continue reading
Manifest Sense
Mark Henderson’s The Geek Manifesto is a remarkable book. Though many of its themes are not new, it is difficult to imagine such a book being published as recently as five years ago. The Geek Manifesto provides a timely analysis … Continue reading
Access to the Finch Committee on Open Access
The Finch Committee, set up last year by David Willetts to examine how UK-funded research findings can be made more accessible — and mentioned by the minister in his speech on the subject earlier this week — has been meeting … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, Finch Committee, open access
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Willetts’ Speech on Open Access: Analysis
David Willetts, Britain’s minister for science and universities, trailed the announcements made in his speech on open access to the UK Publishers’ Association yesterday as a ‘seismic shift’. One learns to be wary of the more hyperbolic statements of government ministers … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, open access, Publishers' Association
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UK Government to lead the world to open access?
The open access buzz around the internet last week was all due to the announcement by senior faculty at Harvard that journal subscription prices were rising at an unsustainable rate and the call to colleagues to devote their publishing energies … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Science & Politics
Tagged David Willetts, Jimmy Wales, open access
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Science: the bargain for funding
On the Guardian web-site today you will find a piece by myself and Imran Khan of CaSE which is a response to an attack on scientists for striking a faustian bargain with business. The attack was written by Ananyo … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science & Politics
Tagged ananyo bhattacharya, Guardian, imran khan, Science funding
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More on Willetts’ Speech
In the days following Willetts’ big science policy speech, there had been a piece in Nature by Daniel Sarewitz and letters from disgruntled physical scientists to the EPSRC that in different ways highlighted the role of scientists in directing research funding. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science & Politics
Tagged Science Policy
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The Case for Support
If you are a scientist and you want some money to spend on research, as part of the grant application you have to write a case for support. It has to be good. You need to describe why the problem … Continue reading
Alive to the prospects for libel reform
The campaign for libel reform has been grinding away for several years now but there was still a buzz of expectation as we gathered in Committee Room 10 in the House of Commons last Wednesday evening. By 6 pm the … Continue reading
Let’s democratise the bejesus out of libel reform
This week the Guardian made the astonishing revelation that a man who is heir to the throne by an accident of birth and who is the representative on Earth of precisely no-one has been enjoying the right of veto over … Continue reading
Posted in Libel Reform, Science & Politics
Tagged defamation, democracy, Libel reform, Parliament
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Libel Reform: steps forward
Today sees the publication of a very important report on libel reform. The report is from the Parliamentary Joint Scrutiny Committee, which has been considering the government’s draft defamation bill in the light of oral and written evidence from interested … Continue reading
Posted in Libel Reform, Science & Politics
Tagged goldacre, Libel reform, Sense about Science, singh, wilmshurst
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Careering out of control
As Jenny mentioned this morning, I have a post on the Science is Vital campaign on science careers on the Times Eureka blog today. For those of you without a subscription, the text is reproduced here: The business of science … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science & Politics
Tagged scicareers, scienceisvital
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