[GOAL] Re: Dreadful Daily Mail article on Open Access

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM, CHARLES OPPENHEIM <
c.oppenheim at btinternet.com> wrote:

> The author is the City/Economics Editor of Daily Mail I believe.  That
> makes the lack of research and the taking of an unnamed organisation's
> statement as gospel truth all the more unacceptable.  This would have been
> bad for a rookie journalist, but for a respected senior journalist, well,
> words fail me.
>
>
> http://m.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2160753/Open-access-puts-UK-jobs-risk.html
>

Words don't fail me and I have blogged it (
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/06/18/does-open-access-cause-cancer-or-cure-it/).
The DM has a different approach to "truth" from some of us and this is
widely know among scientists. Today's report is in the same style as its
cancer reports:
http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
where substance X is harmful today and beneficial tomorrow.


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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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