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European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans and the evidence does not support classification with regard to its carcinogenic potential according to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.

Une journée de discussion portant sur le fonctionnement des revues académiques et les processus d'évaluation des articles avant publications. Celle-ci s'inscrit dans l'actualité d'un nouveau canulard dont une revue fondée par un fameux professeur de sociologie française a été la victime récemment.

C'est mathématique !

Le gigantesque problème que pose l’édition scientifique est loin d’être nouveau. Mais aujourd'hui même l'université d'Harvard ne serait plus en mesure de payer les abonnements aux revues scientifiques.

Biomedical journal with guaranteed publication of scholarly research using author driven post publication peer review.

Many platforms are springing up which enable research distribution to be instant, so that the time lag between finishing a paper, and everyone in the relevant research community worldwide seeing it, is measured in hours and days, rather than months and years.

Since September, I’ve been teaching in MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. So far, it’s a wonderful experience — about which more in the weeks to come...

The problems with peer review and scientific publishing have been a topic for conversation among the online science community this week. Join us as we take a look at the issues.

Reflexions sur les qualités de l'open access

Skeptical Science takes a different approach to Naomi Oreskes' Science paper who sorted her papers into "explicit endorsement of the consensus position", "rejection of the consensus position" and everything else (neutral). In this case, the backbone of our site is our list of climate myths.