December 22, 2015

Briefly

  • From a Press Council decision (via Matt Nippert)
    Press releases are a useful way for newspapers to receive information and comment from interested parties. However, as the senior editor concedes, using a release almost verbatim falls well below best practice. Newspapers risk losing the trust of their readership if they print material that is not independent and objective (or otherwise clearly labelled as comment).
  • Siouxsie Wiles and Kate Hannah have a crowdfunding appeal to send copies of Nicola Gaston’s book on sexism in science to people who need to read it.
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »