Comments on: "Nature is a bitch who likes to make life hard for scientists" (and lazy bloggers)

By: Pete Austin

Pete Austin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:59:00 +0000

The real problem is that a pay wall stops journalists from doing this checking. I expect the “various online publications” saw the same message as I do, “Your current credentials do not allow retrieval of the full text … Purchase the full text”. It’s a bit unfair to criticize them for getting things wrong, when the authors have seemingly not made the facts available.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl3039162

By: Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:58:00 +0000

In other news, you can be less than brilliant and thorough in cracking out and choosing images for your online abstract, but still get a) Superhydrophobic (esp. once dessicated) DNA to sort of clot nicely for TEM analysis, and b) published in Nature, but not c) collateral press w/o new matter. Keep bringing it, All-Italian Muggles.

By: Toni Badora

Toni Badora — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:03:00 +0000

To an idiot, everyone else is stupid.
Here the idiot is the scientist(s) and everyone else is nature.

By: Robert Drop

Robert Drop — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:07:00 +0000

I don’t think we can blame nature for this one.