Dear readers,
Please say good bye to our socio-economic commentaries, because nobody seems to like them. From now on, we will be discussing codes and algorithms 48 hours a day.
Commentaries on following topics will leave us -
i) Most discussions on open-access publication and journal policies. The ‘war’ is over.
ii) Socio-economic trends and forecasts. You know them already and there is no point repeating the same thing.
iii) Topics on contemporary finance – student loans, credit default swaps, banking system, European economy, etc. Give everyone a trillion dollar platinum coin.
iv) General discussions on NIH budget, elections, democracy, war on Islam terror, etc. Who cares?
v) Discussions on Vioxx and other bad drugs. Check (iv)
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P. S. On popular request, we decided to keep those posts, but move them to a new blog focused on socio-politico-economic trends. The location of the blog is here (fixed the link).
Hey, I enjoyed them!
But your bioinfo content is good too
I like them too
Let me move them to a different place then.
I enjoyed them as well! Don’t let the haters on the bioinformatics subreddit get to you. The community is pretty stagnant and unwilling to entertain unfamiliar social commentaries… much like the rest of reddit. Check out r/politics or r/worldnews if you don’t believe me. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if the commentaries ceased, but I believe discussion of open-access and scientific publication is extremely relevant to bioinformatics.
Here is the new plan. I am moving all socio-economic commentaries to http://homolog.us/Social. We will continue to write there, but not advertise the articles anywhere. If you know the location, you can easily follow what is written.
Thanks Steve. I responded to your comment here.
I found them very useful in the terms of broadening my “mental” horizons. It is a pity, that some of them are password protected now.
Hello Andy, Nothing is password protected !! We moved them all to http://homolog.us/Social and put password here to avoid confusing search engines.
Somehow I am still unable to get to posts like this: http://homolog.us/Social/the-drugs-dont-work-and-open-source-will-not-make-them-work/. Everything that is categorized as “B-move” does not work for me. Am I doing something wrong?
Sorry Andy, that was our mistake. We forgot to open password for the second group of posts moved to ‘Social’ territory. I opened them, but in any case, password is ‘social’ for all those articles.