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Some writing worth reading, this week, starting with the amazing"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" http://sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/ …"On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It was the official letter of acceptance for a paper he had submitted 2 months earlier to the Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals, describing the anticancer properties of a chemical that Cobange had extracted from a lichen. In fact, it should have been promptly rejected. Any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper's short-comings immediately. Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless. I know because I wrote the paper. Ocorrafoo Cobange does not exist, nor does the Wassee Institute of Medicine. Over the past 10 months, I have submitted 304 versions of the wonder drug paper to open-access journals. More than half of the journals accepted the paper, failing to notice its fatal flaws. Beyond that headline result, the data from this sting operation reveal the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing." [to be continued...]"Science Magazine Conducts Sting Operation on OA Publishers" http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/10/03/…"Spoof research paper is accepted by 157 journals" http://bmj.com/content/347/…"Dude, seriously, publish" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/…The more pie charts I see, the more I love them, (via http://wtfviz.net/ )"Why Most Traders Fail" http://thereformedbroker.com/2013/10/02/… by @ReformedBroker"How traffic actually works" http://jliszka.github.io/2013/10/01/…[book] "Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science" by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik http://matematica.net/portal/e-books/…"Use The Wrong P-value, Go To Jail: Not A Joke" http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=9308  by @mattstat"Technology and the College Generation" http://nytimes.com/2013/09/29/fashion/…"Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords" http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/…"Total 4663" ???"The True Title of Bayes’s Essay" http://arxiv-web3.library.cornell.edu/pdf… via @DEAGiles"Data suggest guns do in fact kill people" http://economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/09/…"The complete history of Twitter" http://qz.com/130189… ("as told through tortured descriptions of it in the NYT") by @MatthewPhillips"In the future, most people will live in a total surveillance state – and some of us might even like it" http://aeonmagazine.com/world-views/…"Science Shows Men and Women Are Both Awful Stereotypes on Facebook" http://gawker.com… see"Evolution Speeded by Computation" http://nytimes.com/2013/10/01/science… "‘Probably Approximately Correct’ Explores Nature’s Algorithms" via @JenLucPiquant"Science shouldn’t be a luxury ; Knowledge shouldn’t be a commodity" http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/ … via @dr_krystal"A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?" http://npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011…[maps] "Five Boroughs: Building Age NYC" http://bdon.org/2013/09/12/… via @embruns seeet quelques billets en français"Open access: du rêve au cauchemar " http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/… (avec du @jcdrg dedans)[autodérision] tiens, je me reconnais... (via @veheia)"La gauche, le nombre des fonctionnaires et la revalorisation des traitements" http://compter.hypotheses.org/63  sur l'excellent blog de @mXli1"Harvard et les universités françaises" http://focuscampus.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/… intéressant....Did I miss something?