I commented there that the recently posted link to Reputation Systems (by Michael Nielsen) is exactly the answer to Maxine's questions. See also: - Björn Brembs
Highlighted by Maxine on Nautilus (http://blogs.nature.com/nautil...). Pullquote from David Lewis: "My feeling is that the only real hope of cleaning up the corruption of the scientific process that federal agencies have increasingly institutionalized and spread throughout academia lies with the editors of scientific journals. They are the Strait of Hormuz through which scientific information flows to the rest of the world" - Bill Hooker
I, of course, think that if journals required disclosure of all raw data (including: show every replicate, no more "data not shown"), it would go a long way towards solving the problem. - Bill Hooker
A great paper, but I personally prefer some of his earlier papers from Swanson. My favorite is "Migraine and magnesium: eleven neglected connections", Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 31 : 526--557, 1988 - Lars Juhl Jensen
err translation for the linguistically challenged? It looks interesting... - Cameron Neylon
Oh crap, did that actually post? I decided against posting, because it's in German and mine is so poor that I won't end up reading the articles myself! The title is "Science Blogs Series: how is Science Communication 2.0 looking?" There are three parts: "science and the blogosphere: love match or focused community"; "what can and should science blogs accomplish?" and "democratization of science communication through science blogs: towards a scientifically mature community". - Bill Hooker