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Galileo, Open Science, and History

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 27, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 05:51
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From Daily Life in an Ivory Basement:

I'm a big believer in open science...but it's always interesting to think about how such things as "data release" can be perverted by clever scientists. I'm currently in France working on some ascidians with Billie Swalla...and we've been talking about what data we plan to release, and how. During these talks...Billie brought up an interesting historical parallel.

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