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Editors play a vital role in the world of science publishing, checking the methodology of authors and managing the peer-review process; they are the thin red line between fact and fakery.
Another essential feature of team science is checking your ego at the door.
On 3 January, Francisco Hernández, a grad student in neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, suggested on his blog that the Spanish should be able to allocate 0.7% of their tax euros directly to science by checking a box on their tax forms.
At the spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union here, satellite experts involved with the project dipped repeatedly out of presentations on climate science to check with colleagues on any news about the device.
I certainly know and have worked with superb writers who know a huge amount about science, fact check everything they can with the authors of a paper and other experts to make sure things are accurate and in proportion, and overall do a superb job, but certainly a general lack of fact-checking and basic understanding of science is present in a good number and that is and should be a concern.
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