Extracting treasure from trash
By 
Derek Lowe2024-12-10T13:00:00
The corpus of scientific literature needs a drastic clean-up
Like every other practising scientist, my relationship with the literature is rather fraught. I go to the vast collection of papers for information, instruction and answers. But while searching through it, I find myself wondering what important things I might be missing, and how much of what I’m reading is incorrect (or at best incomplete).