Attention Quote by Michael Eisen

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them.

— Derek J. de Solla Price

Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?

— Peter Medawar

If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.

— Abhijit Banerjee

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal…

— Michael Pollan

The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way…

— Ben Goldacre

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to…

— Randy Schekman

Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by…

— Fred Hoyle

My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of…

— Craig Venter

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

— Jim Rohn

“More than that, these adverts sell a dubious world view. They sell the idea that science is not about the delicate relationship between evidence…

— Ben Goldacre

Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one…

— Emma Donoghue