tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post5544142947913723118..comments2024-03-22T00:30:09.536-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: One Word.The Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-66757182434956120032007-08-30T21:23:00.000-07:002007-08-30T21:23:00.000-07:00Anonymous, I agree with you in the sense that Neur...Anonymous, I agree with you in the sense that Neurocritic is far harsher on the media than I would be, but it is useful to be reminded of their silliness and overstretching. <BR/><BR/>One reason I'm not so critical of the media is that I'm frequently so happy to see scientific research get any media attention at all. High school students hear about our work and decide "I want to do that". Maybe things have to be sensationalized a bit to get the general putlic interested -- a kind of foot-in-the-door technique.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-43213777058284430412007-06-26T19:12:00.000-07:002007-06-26T19:12:00.000-07:00Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having to Say Yo...<A HREF="http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2006/03/anonymous-peer-review-means-never.html" REL="nofollow">Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry</A>. Under the guise of professional peer review, manuscript referees and grant reviewers have complete license to bash another’s work. Haven’t you noticed?<BR/><BR/>In this specific post, I did NOT criticize the actual experiment at all, only the way in which the findings were overinterpreted in press coverage.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-27268232350284824692007-06-26T18:10:00.000-07:002007-06-26T18:10:00.000-07:00Neurocritic-I'm curious, quite what do you spend y...Neurocritic-<BR/><BR/>I'm curious, quite <I>what</I> do you spend your day doing? I mean you obviously put quite a bit of effort into <I>misrepresenting</I> and then <I>bashing</I> people's work (in fact, in my mind a more fitting blogger name for you is <B>'StrawMan'</B>); do you actually spend time doing anything to forward the field (other than construct misinformed conclusions about studies)? If I had to guess, you are a graduate student who hasn't learned that coming up with novel finding that have REAL implications is difficult. Maybe I am wrong? Why dont you tell us a little bit about YOUR <B>ground-breaking</B> research? Your jaded, wanna-be hipster commentaries are offensive. Why don't you do something useful with your time and try to PROVE your points with an EMPIRICAL study?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-86886128795765262682007-06-22T16:22:00.000-07:002007-06-22T16:22:00.000-07:00Scary.Scary.Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04943949264511919698noreply@blogger.com