Uncle Kaveh

3 comments on “Another reason to stand up to bullies”

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   so

   July 9, 2010 at 4:16 pm

   it is very sad that the dailymail cites articles which are not available to the public (although probably funded by the public), merely their abstracts are.

   so how can i check what the study is really saying? have you read the study? can you say what’s in it?

   here’s a link to the abstract:
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15677279

   (btw. i’m only guessing that this is the article “cited” by the dailymail, because the dailymail article does not bother about proper citing.)

   (so in conclusion, i also dont understand why you cite the dailymail, which does not even cite the study title?)

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   so

   July 9, 2010 at 4:18 pm

   imagine a world where everyone would check their sources before repeating their supposed messages.

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   kaveh

   July 13, 2010 at 8:09 pm

   Well, “so”, you are right that most research these days is not open access. For example Nature which has a lot of fundamental research has to be paid for. So what can Daily Mail do, but to cite the reference anyway. I would be happy if everything was open access.

   But I hope you agree on the main point that it is good to stand up to bullies.

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