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Lines of communication

In our March Editorial we discuss the need for improved communication between scientists and the public via dedicated science media centers as well as nontraditional personal blogs.

In an effort to do our part in improving lines of communication we are working to transition methagora from a commenting forum to a more traditional blog. We intend to use the site to discuss some of the papers we publish, provide information on upcoming conferences we will be attending (and hopefully reports on these conferences), as well as anything else we think would be useful to our readers. Keep an eye out for our upcoming entry on the most downloaded articles from our January issue.

This is a work in progress and we welcome feedback from our readers on what information you would like to see here.

Posted by Daniel Evanko on February 26, 2009 10:01 AM |

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May I suggest that the March Editorial would have more impact in the blogosphere if it was made free to access (even for a short time period). There are a number of bloggers discussing the issues that this editorial raises, and most are mentioning their frustration at it being behind a paywall.

Really interesting editorial though, may take me a while to fully 'digest'.

Posted by: Katherine Haxton | February 27, 2009 09:30 AM

I'm very sorry for this oversight. We did intend to make this editorial free to access for all users but obviously it didn't happen. This should be corrected very shortly.

I'm glad to hear that you found the editorial interesting and we look forward to feedback from people in the blogosphere.

Posted by: Daniel Evanko | February 27, 2009 09:41 AM

Thanks for the mention of ScienceOnline'09, and glad the editorial is available to all now. We'll begin planning our fourth annual science blogging and online communication conference soon, but plan to join us in North Carolina in January 2010.

Posted by: Anton Zuiker | February 27, 2009 11:59 PM

I suggest a new discussion item: since real advances in Medicine are out of my view (http://sciphu.com/2008/11/meadle-ages-of-todays-medicine.html )in spite of thousands of peer-reviews, would be very interesting an accurate discussion on what accounts for the reason Cancer, Diabetes, CVD, a.s.o., "screening" - Primary Prevention does not exist today - is carried out on ALL individuals, also in those who are negative for the related Constitutions and INHERITED Real Risk, illustrated also in Nature.com blogs; for instance, as regards diabetes: www.nature.com DM Primary Prevention

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/02/titaneuropa_decision_delayed_t.html#comments
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/09/post_10.html#comments
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080915/full/455274b.html?q=2#last-comment


Posted by: Sergio Stagnaro | March 3, 2009 03:38 AM

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