My Point of View article just published by Educational Technology magazine explains the key to SeedMagazine’s lede article on That Voodoo that Scientists Do.
After describing a considerable flap that has been going on among neuroscientists about peer review sparked by the early release of a Perspectives article and the phrase “voodoo correlations” bouncing around online, Seed Magazine quotes Perspectives founding editor Ed Diener: “There are some very important questions that this raises for science. Most important, how can we guarantee quality in what is sent around?
“The internet is full of wonderful information — but it is also full of disinformation and errors. How can readers know whether what they are reading is solid information?”
My article addresses exactly that question, and begins to answer it with some new network analysis from the BarabasiLab. The Curious Case of the Polio Virus Learn Node is the tale of a quality node that found its way to prominence through nature’s network laws.
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