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...we love them — but not everyone shares our opinion.

In a post on Everyday Scientist titled 'caveat grumptor' (http://go.nature.com/f45SuZ), Sam alerted the blogosphere to an editorial in Analytical Chemistry (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac102628p) and lit a fire that burned long and wide. Royce Murray, the journal's editor, “casts science blogging in a very unfair light” according to Paul Bracher on ChemBark (http://go.nature.com/mCrsww) when Murray “believe[s] that the current phenomenon of 'bloggers' should be of serious concern to scientists”. Derek Lowe agrees on In the Pipeline (http://go.nature.com/VCT781) that there “is indeed a lot of inaccurate nonsense on the internet”, but points out that it exists in newspapers, magazines and “in the peer-reviewed literature, too”. Lowe also takes issue with the notion that bloggers are unqualified: “the most widely read ones are all written by chemists”, and suggests that the editorial itself might have benefited from some of the fact-checking or peer-reviewing that Murray is worried is missing from blogs.

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