Comments on: If Science was an Olympic Sport… http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/ A personal laboratory notebook Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:01:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scott http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-3404 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:33:51 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-3404 Just to update you, the Douglas Kell paper has now been published in BMC Medical Genomics (PMID:19133145), and after peer-review now contains 2469 references! http://www.biomedcentral.com/1755-8794/2/2

]]> By: Twins Fancy Gloves http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-2840 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:48:01 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-2840 Interesting Blog there pal.

]]> By: What’s on the web? (29 August 2008) « ScienceRoll http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1527 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:50:36 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1527 [...] If Science was an Olympic Sport… (O’Really? at Duncan.Hull.name) [...]

]]> By: Douglas Kell http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1505 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:24:38 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1505 Of *course* I read all the wretched papers. Not cover-to-cover in all cases, but always the abstracts. It would be bonkers and anti-scientific not to, and if it was *just* a stunt I could have used a bot to grab citations or whatever and paste them in. Why not read the review? I took much of my spare time for a year.

]]> By: Duncan http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1500 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:48:25 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1500 @Gemma, hi, glad you liked it. The Kell paper really does have that many references, take a look! There is also some related commentary over at friendfeed, bayblab and Bora Zivkovic has picked up the story too, with a few new olympic suggestions added.

@Manuel, hello! I doubt Doug has read all 2,184 papers from start-to-finish, perhaps we should ask him? Last time we spoke about it, he said they were all relevant to the subject matter. The paper itself is a bit of an experiment (and stunt) to prove that the reference limits imposed by journals are unnecessary and unhelpful.

]]> By: Manuel Corpas http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1499 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:40:55 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1499 Hmm, 2184 references in the article of Douglas Kell.
Do you think that he has read every single one of the papers?
Would you not need several PhDs to read such amount of material?

Manuel

]]> By: Gemma http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1498 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:34:02 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1498 You do make me laugh out loud, Duncan!
These Olympic events are strikingly recognisable.
Did that Douglas Kell paper *really* have that many references??

]]> By: Duncan http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1495 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:00:22 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1495 Thanks Graham. I’m in training for Team GB (Science), but I’ve got a long way to go before they’ll even consider me for the team…

]]> By: McDawg http://duncan.hull.name/2008/08/22/if-science-was-an-olympic-sport/#comment-1494 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:46:59 +0000 http://dullhunk.wordpress.com/?p=266#comment-1494 Brilliant, Duncan !!

Gold Medal stuff…

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