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Geek and nerd Joe D has in the past studied genetics, molecular and cell biology, worked in cancer research, and made contemptuous amounts of money from incompetently composed photographs. The views expressed on this weblog are not his own; rather, he stole them from you through mind invasion.

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David Colquhoun

http://www.dcscience.net/

"good PR is good for the scientist's career"

I'd much prefer to say that good science is good for a scientists's career. PR is often no better than paid lying. I actually had to stop our Press Office from putting out a Press Release on a recent Nature paper, They couldn't get it accurate enough -all vacuous hype and anyway the subject was too esoteric to be of much interest to the public -the purpose of the press release was really to benefit UCL, not to .the public).

Posted at 2009-08-24 07:10:34 - [Ban] - [Del]

Ian Mulvany

'mulvany', not 'mulvaney'. Common error. p.s. you don't need to post this comment.

Posted at 2009-08-24 10:51:45 - [Ban] - [Del]

Joe D

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Sorry Ian -- I Googled and got so many hits that I thought I had it right!

Hi David -- yes, you won't find me arguing that PR regularly get things wrong, and sometimes have different motives to the researcher. I just thought it worth noting that this is probably the first time I've heard a group of scientists admitting to having a problem themselves.

Posted at 2009-08-24 14:40:26 - [Del]

Joe D

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oops. there should be a "don't" in my comment somewhere.

you won't find me arguing that PR don't regularly get things wrong.

Posted at 2009-08-24 15:33:24 - [Del]

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