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Submission + - Call for scientific research code to be released (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by Pentagram on Sunday February 07, 2010 @06:40PM

Pentagram writes: Professor Ince, writing in the Guardian, has issued a call for scientists to make the code they use in the course of their research publicly available. He focuses specifically on the topical controversies in climate science, and concludes with the view that researchers that are able to but do not release programs that they use should not be regarded as scientists.

Submission + - Political viewpoints linked to fear 1

Submitted by Pentagram on Friday September 19, 2008 @05:29AM

Pentagram writes: Researchers, writing in Science, report that the political orientation of test subjects who have strong views is linked to how easy they are to startle. They found that subjects who were more fearful were more likely to have right wing views, such as being in favour of capital punishment and higher defence budgets. The researchers suggest that this psychological difference is why it is so difficult to change people's minds in political arguments^W discussions.

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