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    "The State of Science Writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time"

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    Only 2nd new African primate species found in 28 years...Lesula are shy, quiet and occur in small groups in lowland evergreen tropical forests On @PLOSONE: http://ow.ly/dGUoY
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    September 13
    What the community is saying about a new PLOS ONE study:
    "Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers are False"... ow.ly/dFvCz These astute comments come via Twitter in the last 24hrs....

    Anna_Webb “@CaulfieldTim: Cool study. #PLOS:...

    Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers are False. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…”> fascinating 4 minutes ago · reply ·

    UncommonJohn Study shows why you shouldn't necessarily believe news reports of scientific findings. bit.ly/QMLtp9

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    saraheverts Studies w huge news coverage often refuted/"strongly attenuated" by later neglected work bit.ly/UJS2aP

    bmossop Using ADHD as case study, researchers say newspapers zero in on high impact journal results, miss followup studies bit.ly/QNvozx 14 hours ago ·

    BernScience THIS is the problem w science in the 24-hr news cycle: Media covers early findings, but not refutations ow.ly/dFx34 in @PLOSONE 20 hours ago ·

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    PLOS ONE: Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False: The Case of Attent
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    September 11
    Tuesday morning all PLOS websites are down or slow due to an ISP network problem...they're working on it and we'll keep you posted.
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    September 6
    Don't miss this timely PLOS Biology book review by UNC marine ecologist John Bruno and business economics undergrad Lauren-Kristine Pryzant who note that “The African nations where [authors] McClanahan and Cinner work emit relatively little...
    carbon dioxide per capita; therefore, mitigation at a global scale is largely beyond reach. For these nations, adaption is the only means to cope with a changing climate.”

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    September 4
    In a new initiative, PLOS removes barriers for research publication by scientists in low and middle income countries by lowering fees http://bit.ly/OPFvhP
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