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Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge It was the kind of study that made doctors around the world sit up and take notice: Two popular high-blood-pressure drugs were found to be much better in combination than either alone. “There was a ‘wow’ reaction,” recalls Franz Messerli, a New York doctor who, like many others, changed his […]
How Industry Uses the ICMJE Guidelines to Manipulate Authorship—And How They Should Be Revised Summary Points Academic authorship boosts the credibility of industry publications and masks their commercial function. Alongside traditional “guest authorship” and ghostwriting, industry may simply exaggerate the contribution of named academic authors and downplay that of commercial writers, who are excluded from […]
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Resources, School Libraries
|How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what law students should look for when reading them. Source: GWU Legal Studies Research Paper […]
Report From Paper to Persona — Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in the Attention Age
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, News
|From Paper to Persona — Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in the Attention Age by Bill Densmore, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (University of Missouri School of Journalism) “From Paper to Persona: Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in an Attention Age,” explains how a new public-benefit collaboration could help slow the […]
Back to School The following links provide resources for students, parents, and educators in preparation for returning to school in the fall. For Students For Educators For Parents Financial Assistance Safe and Healthy Students How Are We Doing? More Online Resources Source: USA.gov
Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, PLOS
|Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles Summary Points Ghostwriting of medical journal articles raises serious ethical and legal concerns, bearing on the integrity of medical research and scientific evidence used in legal disputes. Medical journals, academic institutions, and professional disciplinary bodies have thus far failed to enforce […]
“Millions of federal court records are being destroyed to save money” The federal courts are destroying millions of judicial case records that have been stored in the Federal Records Centers of the National Archives for decades, all in an effort to save money. The plan is to destroy all records on cases that did not […]
Pet Statistics Sixty-two percent of U.S. households, or about 72.9 million families, own a pet, according to the 2011-2012 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association (APPA). This is up from 56 percent of U.S. households in 1988, the first year the survey was conducted. Includes charts: NUMBER OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS […]
NOAA — Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Reports
|Deepwater Horizon: A Preliminary Bibliography of Published Research and Expert Commentary (PDF) This bibliography attempts to list all of the published research and expert commentary that has resulted from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, technical reports released by scientific agencies and institutions, and editorials published in peer-reviewed […]
Social Media: Federal Agencies Need Policies and Procedures for Managing and Protecting Information They Access and Disseminate Federal agencies increasingly use recently developed Internet technologies that allow individuals or groups to create, organize, comment on, and share online content. The use of these social media services– including popular Web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube– […]