Harmonia Philosophica

Category: Research

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    UK, Research, Deadlines - Another plague of science...

    England's giant sequencing endeavor, the 100,000 Genomes Project, is getting a cash injection from public and private sources to meet its 2017 deadline, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. (1) Science with deadlines. It seems logical and proper. But how can you reach truth with deadlines? Unless you make shortcuts to fit the... schedule? Thought cannot…

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    DNA, codes, garbage bins...

    A paper published last year in Icarus, the prestigious journal of planetary science, asked if it was possible that terrestrial life on Earth had been 'seeded' from beyond the Earth - and if so, does the building block of that life, DNA, contain any sort of message from our alien creators. Using mathematics, the authors…

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    PhDs, sharing, jail...

    Diego Gómez Hoyos is studying for a master’s degree in conservation and wildlife management. But his thirst for knowledge is also threatening his freedom. The 26-year-old Colombian biologist faces up to 8 years in prison for posting a copy of another scientist’s thesis online. Colombia, like many other countries, grants strong protections to authors. In…

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    Science. Publications. A lost cause...

    Publishing is one of the most ballyhooed metrics of scientific careers, and every researcher hates to have a gap in that part of his or her CV. Here’s some consolation: A new study finds that very few scientists—fewer than 1%—manage to publish a paper every year. But these 150,608 scientists dominate the research journals, having…

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    Pioneers need no references!

    A scientific paper on the aortic valve published on 1968. Had only one 500-years-old reference: Leonardo da Vinci who first explored the matter of how this valve worked. (1) This is what today's scientists will never understand: Pioneers do not need references.

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