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Preserving the scientific commons

Preserving the scientific commons. Ellen Silbergeld Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Editor in Chief, Environmental Research. “The tragedy of the commons”. A good that is held in common  encourages exploitation

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Preserving the scientific commons

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  1. Preserving the scientific commons Ellen Silbergeld Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Editor in Chief, Environmental Research

  2. “The tragedy of the commons” • A good that is held in common  encourages exploitation • Sharing responsibility for the commons requires adopting a community ethic • The community enforces the ethic • The “guild” system of training • Rewards and punishments

  3. What is the “scientific commons”? • Shared Knowledge • The community of scientists • The benificiaries of science

  4. The responsibility for the commons • Scientific community • the myth of self correcting science • Open source publishing • The failures of wiki • The invasion of the WWW

  5. Threats to the scientific commons - internal • The expansion of the scientific community • Bibliometrics and advancement • “fraud and abuse” investigations • The Needleman case • Individual and institutional malfeasance

  6. Threats to the scientific commons - external • The problems of success • The rise of science based policies • Evidence based medicine • The intervention of interested parties • Tobacco research • Climate science • De-privileging of science • Scientific illiteracy

  7. The “weapons” of the commons • Transparency • Accessibility • Responsibility • Extending the ethos

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