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Scientist sues U.S. National Academy of Sciences after being ousted
- ScienceNOW
- 22/10/21 21:00
Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, a prominent Peruvian archaeologist who was among the first members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to be removed after a 2019 bylaws update allowed expulsion for documented misconduct violations, filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against the academy and NAS President Marcia McNutt this month. The suit alleges that “NAS and McNutt made false...
Journal seeks to upend scientific publishing by only reviewing—not accepting—manuscripts
- ScienceNOW
- 22/10/21 00:35
eLife
, the upstart publisher that has campaigned to end what it calls scientific journals’ counterproductive gatekeeping of research, today announced a new approach to hasten that outcome: It will cease accepting or rejecting manuscripts for publication, instead offering only peer reviews of selected manuscripts.
Until now,
eLife
, a nonprofit,...