I am Open Access Man, and I will defeat you for good, Doctor Bad Popular Science!

Sep. 13th, 2006 11:48 am
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Via [livejournal.com profile] forodwaith here, I find this lovely post on Language Log in which Marc Liberman shows how access to publicly funded research can help an informed reader decimate a single point made in Louann Brizendine's The Female Brain. With open access to the research, Liberman points out, it's harder for authors summarizing the results of scientific research to completely make shit up as Brizendine does here.
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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.

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