Worth reading
Maria Brumm, "Giving the Lie: Blogs and Scientific Criticism", Green Gabbro, 4/6/2008. My favorite paragraph:
This cultural conflict been making the rounds of the geoblogosphere thanks to a pair of editorials in Nature Geoscience on the pros and cons of blogging. See RealClimate and Highly Allochthonous for summaries, Kim (who talks about fact-checking before teaching undergraduates), Chris again (with diagrams!), and James Annan for further discussion. (Incidentally: I am sure the various editors of the Nature Publishing Group are too dignified and professional to dance around their offices going "Oh yeah, baby, who controls the discourse? We control the discourse! UNGH!"… but when was the last time a blog post sparked a rambling article in the pages of EOS or Geology?)
Also worth the price of admission: the pointer to Steven Shapin's A Social History of Truth.
Read the rest of this entry »
Permalink Comments off