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The massive impact of science on our collective and individual lives has decreased the willingness of many to accept the pronouncements of scientists unless they can verify the strength of the underlying evidence for themselves. […] It is vital that science is not seen to hide behind closed laboratory doors, but engages seriously with the public.

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Open your minds and share your results, says Geoffry Boulton, asking that scientists make data available to the public and to other researchers, because “Science’s capacity for self-correction comes from this openness to scrutiny and challenge”.

Science as an open enterprise is a report from the Royal Society that highlights 6 main changes needed to improve the openess of science:

1. “a shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve;
2. expanding the criteria used to evaluate research to give credit for useful data communication and novel ways of collaborating;
3. the development of common standards for communicating data;
4. mandating intelligent openness for data relevant to published scientific papers;
5. strengthening the cohort of data scientists needed to manage and support the use of digital data;
6. the development and use of new software tools to automate and simplify the creation and exploitation of datasets.”

(via smarterplanet)

(Source: scipsy)