Professor Calls for Nature Journal Boycott Over Bias Claims

Nature Has "Abandoned Science for Social Justice" Says Richard Dawkins

Top scientific journal Nature has "abandoned science for social justice", Richard Dawkins has said as he backed a letter written by Chemistry Professor Anna Krylov which accused the journal of "social engineering".

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science

The field of psychology has rapidly transformed its open science practices in recent years. Yet there has been limited progress in integrating principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. In this Perspective, we raise the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue of MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge), calling for more responsible practices in generalising study findings and co-authorship to promote glo

Leading journal accused of abandoning science over ‘social justice agenda’

Publisher criticised for implementing policies that ‘sacrifice merit’ in favour of identity-based criteria

Why I no longer engage with Nature publishing group

My response to a recent invitation to review a manuscript for Nature Communications

A new issue of J. Controversial Ideas on censorship in the sciences

For several years a group of us have been working on a paper on censorship in the sciences, and it’s finally come out in the Journal of Controversial Ideas (go here to access all the papers ever published). This “heterodox” journal founded in November 2018 by moral philosophers Francesca Minerva, Jeff McMahan, and Peter Singer. It’s peer-reviewed and open access, but believe me, the reviews are every bit as stringent as those for a science “jour…