More on Scientific Publishing

Wired magazine pointed me to www.badscience.net, which is fascinating! There was a posting relevant to issues of publishing science which seems very relevant to OR:

Science is done by scientists, who write it up. Then a press release is written by a non-scientist, who runs it by their non-scientist boss, who then sends it to journalists without a science education who try to convey difficult new ideas to an audience of either lay people, or more likely - since they’ll be the ones interested in reading the stuff - people who know their way around a t-test a lot better than any of these intermediaries. Finally, it’s edited by a whole team of people who don’t understand it.

Lots of good stuff there.