http://m.chronicle.com/article/NIH-Tells-Genomic-Researchers-/148509/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Setting the Record Straight
Scientists are taking to social media to challenge weak research, share replication attempts in real time, and counteract hype. Will this online discourse enrich the scientific process?
http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41056/title/Setting-the-Record-Straight/
Setting the Record Straight
Scientists are taking to social media to challenge weak research, share replication attempts in real time, and counteract hype. Will this online discourse enrich the scientific process?
http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41056/title/Setting-the-Record-Straight/
I believe that it will enrich the scientific process because an important part of this system is the idea of falsification and the work of one scientists being checked and corrected by another. Making these scientists publish their work may be an inconvenience but it allows other scientists to get knowledge of advances sooner, therefore helping them with their own work in which can prove or disprove other theories.
ReplyDeleteI believe this policy will produce more efficient scientific experiments even if it is a burden to researchers at times. I think it will lead to faster progress in scientific knowledge as well. The one thing that struck me as odd was the last paragraph. It talked about how the policy will ask for broad permissions from human participants and that these results will be kept private. I wonder how well these results will be kept private and what potential information are they providing that would be useful for insurance companies and law enforcement.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me wonder how they will decide which scientists to allow access to this information and if it is dangerous to share such advanced work with other countries that could possibly use it against us.
DeleteI believe this policy should be enforced to enhance the scientific knowledge being gained by other researchers. These scientists and researches can feed off of each other and work together to come to a better conclusion. Instead of doing private research, scientists can help to further current experiments and incorporate some of their own theories to either support or falsify conclusions made by other researchers.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree! The policy allows scientists to build off of each other's findings so that groups do not have to "reinvent the wheel" when it comes to their research. This allows for more advancements to be made in a shorter amount of time, ultimately benefitting humanity in such a way that offsets the burden it may impart on some researchers.
DeleteI can see why some scientist's would be frustrated with the policy, as it makes their discoveries essentially public domain. Research (which is simply the realized thoughts of an individual) act as form of intellectual property, so is it right to essentially seize someone's personal work for the benefit of the greater community?
DeleteI think that this policy is very efficient. Tori makes a strong point about the idea of falsification and that this policy does an excellent job of allowing one scientist to examine and correct the work of another. By doing this, scientists are able to get a closer look at each others research and theories. I think the idea of "you must share data" is going to be a success.
ReplyDeleteI think that this policy will be good for the scientific community because scientist will be forced to share what they have discovered and it gives other scientist a chance to look and it and review it, falsification process. I think this will only help out scientist, because people always learn more and accept criticism better from their peers than any other group of people.
ReplyDeleteit could help because it would reach so many people and also so many different people from all over different places. it can be from all over the world to all over the country. it could also hurt because people could give falso info to purposly mess with the expirment.
ReplyDeleteI agree! I think sharing this information will help other scientist all over the world! Maybe it'll even lead to quicker solutions! Although there is the downfall of plagiarism, I think this idea would help much more than hurt scientist! Who knows what may happen!
DeleteI agree with Tori, I think if anything, this will help out the scientific process. Her point on falsification is valid, as all work should be checked. This will help lead to better empirical data. The scientist, as Madison points out, can also work with one another to reach conclusions faster. The other thing I fear is that other scientist will end up taking credit for experiments when they weren't the ones who really started it.
ReplyDeleteThis point of plagiarism is interesting. I would hope that this system keeps tabs on where and who the information is coming from.
DeleteI believe this is a great way to connect all scientific researchers, and will allow for a wider range of research. Also, like many have stated above, this will strengthen the falsification process, due to more scientists having access to new findings, research, and so on. Like Nicci pointed out, this could lead to plagiarism in the scientific domain, and some scientists may not receive credit for their work.
ReplyDeleteI think that the policy to share data is very important because if scientists all collaborate together, then it will be easier to see what kind of advancements have already been made and what still needs to be further researched. People can be working on the same research simultaneously and not even know it so I think that sharing data will be more time and energy efficient. I can see, however, why some scientists are hesitant to share their research. Scientists publish papers and try and be the first person to discover some unknown theory or result and they try and write and publish a paper as quickly as possible so that they can get the credit they deserve. If two people are working on the same research, the credit goes to whoever gets their paper out first. I guess scientists can still put out papers for experimental results if they're working off one another's work, but it probably won't feel as successful to them as it would if they had done the research and experiments all on their own.
ReplyDeleteI personally really like this idea. There aren't many things that were discovered by just one individual that at least one other person was working on. One thing that we can't understand someone else might and they might not understand something that you do. It would only increase the speed at which possible discoveries can made. But who wants to share fame? That is the problem. If they feel close they won't want to ask for help because they want to finish what they started all on their own. Overall, i think the communication among scientist is a very good thing and it should be continued.
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