Stine Bjerkestrand

09.04.2013: One of the fundamental pillars of scientific publishing, peer review, has met with a real challenge. From a blogger December 2010. The recognised peer-reviewed journal Science publishes online what they claim to be a revolutionary study. The NASA researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon and her collaborators...

24.01.2012: Why is it that some studies attract extensive media attention, shape opinion and lead to political action, while others are passed over in silence? Subjects that satisfy the traditional criteria for news in the media – current interest, materiality, immediacy, possibility of personification...