Comments on: NCBI ROFL: Hello, world! (again)

By: JonFrum

JonFrum — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:20:00 +0000

No, social science is a joke. A small joke, but a joke none the less.

By: CR

CR — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:37:00 +0000

Unfortunately, it just doesn’t happen that way; PubMed works the way it works, and for someone to provide the full text of an article (that professional/student types can access through their institution, but non-scientists, as you put it, would have to pay for) is, I’m totally sure, some kind of copyright violation. Not something I’d do on a public blog!

That said, maybe investigate the situation at your local library – I imagine they have access to online databases of journals, the same as the university libraries do, and you may be able to read full articles through them.

By: Jen B

Jen B — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:12:59 +0000

@Marga – not all of us are in school or professional life anymore. I am at home raising my 3 little people, which I find important but not exactly intellectually stimulating. I found this blog on my iPad PulseNews, which makes it quite far-reaching. All this to say that, while the blog articles certainly are complete (and entertaining) as they are, even those of us non-scientists would enjoy the full text. OK, back to the fun…

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By: ZZ

ZZ — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:18:33 +0000

I don’t like how most of the features of this blog are social scientific studies. This is a perfect example of how people from the “hard” sciences denigrate the “soft” or social sciences. Social science is not a joke, but seeing as you are “ROFL” says a lot. And I agree, no comment or context makes this blog rather dull.

By: Marga

Marga — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:42:52 +0000

You don’t need comment or context, the NCBI ROFL papers are totally self-explanatory in my opinion. There is no such thing as PubMed membership, the vast majority of people reading this blog have institutional access to the papers. Brilliant blog, I love it.

By: Weakly

Weakly — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:25:27 +0000

Let me see if I understand this. You provide an abstract of a research paper, without comment or context, and below that an *image* of the text I just read, which links to… the abstract I just read. And reading any more requires a PubMed membership.

I’m trying to image a blog more worthless and bereft of content, but I can’t.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:35:54 +0000

Welcome to the Hive Overmind as the Bad Astronomer calls it. Looking forward to following you.

By: Dan!

Dan! — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:56:13 +0000

So, my question is…did you ever add this to your CV, or not? I’d say now that you’ve been picked up by Discover, its kind of a big deal.

I’m trying to decide weather my blog is science-y enough for it to be to be relevant. I can equally see it helping or hindering my chances.

By: LightPhoenix

LightPhoenix — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:33:36 +0000

NCBI is the organization that runs PubMed, one of the biggest websites to access scientific papers in biology (and other subjects).

ROFL means “rolling on the floor laughing.”