Feb 23, 2025 08:12 PM
I have written you a book on forensic metascience
https://jamesclaims.substack.com/p/i-hav...n-forensic
EXCERPT: It is a complete introduction to Forensic Metascience techniques. It introduces the field, and goes through a reasonably comprehensive list of observations you can make about scientific papers to ensure their consistency — some covered in a lot more detail than others! (MORE - details)
Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'?
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/wi...ar-on-woke
EXCERPT: It is worth highlighting that the industry faced a similar dilemma in late 2017, as several leading scholarly publishers encountered state pressure to amend content collections in China. Like now, there was public outcry and calls for a coordinated stand against censorship complicity. But industry coordination was not forthcoming.
I interviewed publishers from 2019 to 2022 across all levels of seniority to understand the conditions of self-censorship in China. The barriers to collective action were deep rooted. Interviewees described an absence of agency to resist. For most, responsibility lay elsewhere: management boards; trade bodies; even academic editors and their research communities, failing to hold publishers accountable to their own standards. Decisions were taken in a climate of fear and uncertainty about the consequences of censorship compliance and the penalties for resistance.
Despite some early attempts to share information, publishers quickly turned inwards and shut down external discussions. Suspicions arose that some were irreversibly enmeshed in China’s vetting procedures for the import and distribution of scholarly books and journals. Public outrage simmered to apathy and, for some, self-censorship became the new normal while public attention shifted to fresh controversies... (MORE - details)
https://jamesclaims.substack.com/p/i-hav...n-forensic
EXCERPT: It is a complete introduction to Forensic Metascience techniques. It introduces the field, and goes through a reasonably comprehensive list of observations you can make about scientific papers to ensure their consistency — some covered in a lot more detail than others! (MORE - details)
Will medical publishers fight Trump’s war on 'woke'?
https://www.thebookseller.com/comment/wi...ar-on-woke
EXCERPT: It is worth highlighting that the industry faced a similar dilemma in late 2017, as several leading scholarly publishers encountered state pressure to amend content collections in China. Like now, there was public outcry and calls for a coordinated stand against censorship complicity. But industry coordination was not forthcoming.
I interviewed publishers from 2019 to 2022 across all levels of seniority to understand the conditions of self-censorship in China. The barriers to collective action were deep rooted. Interviewees described an absence of agency to resist. For most, responsibility lay elsewhere: management boards; trade bodies; even academic editors and their research communities, failing to hold publishers accountable to their own standards. Decisions were taken in a climate of fear and uncertainty about the consequences of censorship compliance and the penalties for resistance.
Despite some early attempts to share information, publishers quickly turned inwards and shut down external discussions. Suspicions arose that some were irreversibly enmeshed in China’s vetting procedures for the import and distribution of scholarly books and journals. Public outrage simmered to apathy and, for some, self-censorship became the new normal while public attention shifted to fresh controversies... (MORE - details)