I have a friend, who has a cousin, who knows a guy… who, even though he was dating the most beautiful girl at the party, couldn’t NOT looking at any skirt that passed in front of him. I’m not saying he did that in front of his girlfriend (somehow he could control that). I’m talking about when […]
I read a lot, but I think even more about the stuff that I read and how to use it toconnect dots. And many times, throughout my career, in spite of the nature of the problem, I kept coming back to some of the same articles that I have read before for the explanation/solution. I […]
“Published research findings are sometimes refuted by subsequent evidence, with ensuing confusion and disappointment. (…) There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims.” Ioannidis, 2005 That is how starts the scary Ioannidis paper, which is still nowadays the most downloaded […]
“It will be a chilly day in hell before all the older scientists agree to change anything, much less something that currently benefits many of them.” Robert Insall This great quote was actually not in the article, but in the comment from Robert Insall from University of Birmingham, one issue later. This article, that was […]
I bumped into this article completely by chance. My former lab had a subscription of the journal ‘Science of the Total Environment’, and one day, while I was organizing the issues in a shelf, this one felt in front of me open at this article page. The title called my eye. I started to read […]
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