I wrote a paper on her in college. She was the first to take clear X-ray crystallography pictures of DNA, from which the double-helical structure could be deduced. Although she died 4 years before Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize, there is doubt as to whether she would have been included as the tension between Wilkins and Franklin was reknowned.
Supposedly (I have not verified this myself), Watson refers to Rosalind Franklin as "Rosie" in his famed book "The Double Helix". It was a nickname she hated.
It's my first time on Slashdot and I am impressed by the small level of noise in the discussion prompted by this Katz's article. I can see why marcus and PapaZit propose a similar model for the review of webified medical research.
The problem is that often folks don't read that ensuing discussion. With increased usage of the Web, noise levels have risen dramatically. People have begun to be conditioned to skipping any sort of free, unmoderated discussion.
That's incredibly dangerous with regards to medical research. I know all sorts of people will react to this opinion, writing it off as a knee-jerk response to openness of information. But this information is difficult to compare to other information. The cost of trusting inaccurate medical research is too high to not review it before publishing it.
I'm not saying I'm against the electronic publication of medical research. Just that the idea does need to be carefully implemented. And that previous models should be considered with huge grains of salt.
The largest task will be determining what is and what is not noise. Allow too little and you have a restrained forum which poses its own danger. Allow too much and noise reduces readership of threads.
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I wrote a paper on her in college. She was the first to take clear X-ray crystallography pictures of DNA, from which the double-helical structure could be deduced. Although she died 4 years before Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize, there is doubt as to whether she would have been included as the tension between Wilkins and Franklin was reknowned.
Supposedly (I have not verified this myself), Watson refers to Rosalind Franklin as "Rosie" in his famed book "The Double Helix". It was a nickname she hated.
It's my first time on Slashdot and I am impressed by the small level of noise in the discussion prompted by this Katz's article. I can see why marcus and PapaZit propose a similar model for the review of webified medical research.
The problem is that often folks don't read that ensuing discussion. With increased usage of the Web, noise levels have risen dramatically. People have begun to be conditioned to skipping any sort of free, unmoderated discussion.
That's incredibly dangerous with regards to medical research. I know all sorts of people will react to this opinion, writing it off as a knee-jerk response to openness of information. But this information is difficult to compare to other information. The cost of trusting inaccurate medical research is too high to not review it before publishing it.
I'm not saying I'm against the electronic publication of medical research. Just that the idea does need to be carefully implemented. And that previous models should be considered with huge grains of salt.
The largest task will be determining what is and what is not noise. Allow too little and you have a restrained forum which poses its own danger. Allow too much and noise reduces readership of threads.