How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse

quax writes "Mainstream media always follows the same kind of 'He said, she said' template, which is why even climate change deniers get their say, although they are a tiny minority. The leading scientific journals, on the other hand, are expensive and behind pay-walls. But it turns out there are places on the web where you can follow science up close and personal: The many personal blogs written by scientists — and the conversation there is changing the very nature of scientific debate. From the article: 'It's interesting to contemplate how corrosive the arguments between Bohr and Einstein may have turned out, if they would have been conducted via blogs rather than in person. But it's not all bad. In the olden days, science could easily be mistaken for a bloodless intellectual game, but nobody could read through the hundreds of comments on Scott's blog that day and come away with that impression.'"

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Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm still peeking, though losing interest. The discussions seem rather... limited. Perhaps a user purge was the intended goal, to bring in "more monetizable" users?
If they were not making enough money with the previous community, and are looking for more of an "audience" than a participatory body of users (some of whom were interesting and notable experts in their fields), only time will tell if this should remain on that person's resume as a "successful" change of a notable website. (someone posted a link to a linked in profile of the person who spearheaded this endeavor). On a side note, my previous posts (done while logged in) which directly mentioned this topic, seem to somehow not have "saved" (or were deleted) - did anyone else have this happen or do I have to ease off on the paint fumes?