Is science the answer?

The Community-Conservation Conundrum: Is Citizen Science the Answer?

Public participation theory assumes that empowering communities leads to enduring support for new initiatives. The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy, approved in 2000, embraces this assumption and includes goals for community involvement in resolving threats to native flora and fauna. Over the last 20 years, community-based ecological restoration groups have proliferated, with between 600 and 4...

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

Reproducibility issues in science, is P value really the only answer?

Johnson describes the lack of reproducibility of scientific studies, attributed, according to the author, to the low level of significance (1). We appreciate the quality of this work and its importance for the interpretation of statistical evidence. These results should be considered in statistical guidelines. Nevertheless, we would like to point out some important points not thoroughly discuss...

Is there an answer?

Is There an Answer? is intended to serve as a forum in which readers to IUBMB Life may pose questions of the type that intrigue biochemists but for which there may be no obvious answer or one may be available but not widely known or easily accessible. Readers are invited to e-mail [email protected] if they have questions to contribute or if they can provide answers to questions that are provi...

When the ICU is not the answer.