tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563205518828267408.post4160408288504094278..comments2024-01-19T08:08:23.595-08:00Comments on All of My Faults Are Stress-Related: Is it unethical to blog about peer-reviewed research?Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07738706550175991130noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563205518828267408.post-68293758173534678822008-04-04T22:26:00.000-07:002008-04-04T22:26:00.000-07:00I don't have access to peer reviewed journals but...I don't have access to peer reviewed journals but I have benefited a lot from reading blogs about research. Writing a quality criticism or response does mean fact checking as Myles Allen has stressed. But I do feel that bloggers who consistently misrepresent science will be found out and criticized. The open nature of the blogosphere helps in policing the quality of science writing.Suvrat Kherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281172632784780810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563205518828267408.post-50370582689151328252008-04-04T19:20:00.000-07:002008-04-04T19:20:00.000-07:00I don't have access to most peer-reviewed articles...I don't have access to most peer-reviewed articles, actually. I subscribe to <I>Science</I> and have a ten-article "block of docs" available from GSA, and my institution gets <I>Nature</I> (but not <I>Nature Geosciences</I>) in paper copy... and that's it. I've got access to pdfs of old editions of the <I>Journal of Metamorphic Geology</I> through a bulk journal feed to my library, and I need to renew my AGU membership so I can read those journals. But Elsevier (including the Journal of Structural Geology)? Interlibrary Loan is my friend.<BR/><BR/>(I'm not going to participate in the podcast. I don't have access to a space where I can speak without either keeping someone awake or being interrupted by the four-year-old.)<BR/><BR/>How critical does a blog post need to be in order to require notifying the authors? (For instance, I'm thinking of blogging about the recent GSA Today article that continues the Jelly Sandwich discussion. There have been three papers with different takes on the issue. They can't all be right, which makes the discussion that much more interesting. If I wanted to blog about possible ways to reconcile the research, would I need to mention the post to the researchers?)Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738706550175991130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563205518828267408.post-50598668858818747542008-04-04T18:02:00.000-07:002008-04-04T18:02:00.000-07:00A critical problem here is that the blogs and comm...A critical problem here is that the blogs and comments are freely available on the web but most of the peer-reviewed articles are not. Those of us without access cannot check the sources.Bo bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07428421456391327399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563205518828267408.post-48926169809531549852008-04-04T00:55:00.000-07:002008-04-04T00:55:00.000-07:00Until this discussion, I had figured that publishe...<I>Until this discussion, I had figured that published work was fair game for discussion in any forum, as long as the work was appropriately cited.</I><BR/><BR/>It is fair game. Unequivocally and without question.<BR/><BR/><I>Do bloggers have a similar responsibility, to contact authors and let them comment?</I><BR/><BR/>My vote on that is a firm "yes" if the blog is critical of the paper. If it's not critical, notification seems optional to me.<BR/><BR/>Science blogs are an enormous resource, one that amazingly extends and expands the kind of stuff we used to do in grad seminars and in the bar at conferences. They're more public, obviously, and that imposes a certain amount of obligation on the blogger to try not to screw things up too badly, but in my opinion they are a large net positive. I'm an old geezer and I'm getting to read stuff in multiple disciplines <I>every night</I> that would never have been even accessible to me 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.RBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562135000111792590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7563205518828267408.post-77413369756635697352008-04-03T22:41:00.000-07:002008-04-03T22:41:00.000-07:00In answer to the titular question: No! It most ce...In answer to the titular question: No! It most certainly is not.<BR/><BR/>The essence of the debate comes down to the personal credibility of the commentator as it relates to the facts and opinions that are the subject of the discussion in question. If the commentary is on the mark, the medium in which it is delivered is of little relevance.<BR/><BR/>Blogging, if anything, is more ethical to the extent that it is generally more accessible.<BR/><BR/>The ability to think critically about what we read, see, or hear - regardless of the medium - is the real issue here.<BR/><BR/>[I think this would be a fertile topic for discussion on the inaugural <A HREF="http://www.goodschist.com/2008/04/02/podclast-episode-1-call-for-participants-and-subjects/" REL="nofollow">PodClast</A>.]Ron Schotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10020094512548523216noreply@blogger.com