Welcome to the ScienceCheck blog. We’ll be occasionally presenting some issues for discussion here related to our new forum ScienceCheck.org, which collects and presents evaluations from researchers on the effectiveness of published methods (typically experimental protocols). One of the main themes I will be dealing with here is the challenge of performing Open Science– how can we convince researchers to share successes and failures for the benefit of the greater community? There is clearly a wealth of untapped experimental wisdom (which typically goes unpublished) that we could all benefit from, and ScienceCheck.org serves to capture some of this wisdom and present it in an organized, searchable manner. In order to achieve this objective, it will be helpful to have your feedback and advice on a variety of issues–hopefully our occasional posts will inspire you to contribute something about your experience in R&D and how a forum like ScienceCheck could be useful. If we’re really fortunate, we might even convince you to become a real advocate of our Open Science approach by volunteering your help to publicize our cause, act as a subject editor, or help to create and test new features for the site.
Feel free to respond to the posts here or at our sister blog scdevelop.wordpress.com, which is focused on the site itself and collects feedback on specific features, plans, and technical issues. You are also welcome to contact me anytime at chris@sciencecheck.org.
Thanks for your interest and I look forward to hearing from you!
Chris
