Diagnose and be damned

Scoop and be damned

Both journals and journalism are well served by the embargo system. Newspaper offices receive advance copies of major journals, and/or press releases highlighting key papers, embargoed so that their contents cannot be disclosed before publication day. Journalists then have time to write stories to appear simultaneously. No-one has an unfair advantage. And journals gain more publicity than they ...

Publish or be damned.

Glucose and Fat Oxidation: Bomb Calorimeter Be Damned

For both respiration and combustion, the energy loss difference between glucose and fat oxidation often is referenced to the efficiency of the fuel. Yet, the addition of anaerobic metabolism with ATP resynthesis to complete respiratory glucose oxidation further contributes to energy loss in the form of entropy changes that are not measured or quantified by calorimetry; combustion and respirator...

Out , damned spot : Can the “ Macbeth Effect ” be replicated ? Brian

In a much-publicized paper, Zhong and Liljenquist (2006) reported evidence that feelings of moral cleanliness are grounded in feelings of physical cleanliness: a threat to people’s moral purity leads them to seek, literally, to cleanse themselves. In an attempt to replicate and build upon these findings, we conducted a pilot study in which we unexpectedly failed to replicate the original result...

The corollary of scientific research: "Publish or be damned".