But you can drink enough so you don't worry about your health problems ;-) On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:45 PM, David Epstein wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Michael Palij went: > >> The NY Times has an article on the alleged research fraud >> by Dipak K. Das of the University of Connecticut who reported >> on the beneficial effects of drinking wine. >> [...] >> More detail, including quotes from UConn's press release on >> the matter is available on "Retraction Watch" website; see: >> http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/uconn-resveratrol-researcher-dipak-das-fingered-in-sweeping-misconduct-case/ >> > > The thing is, you can't drink enough wine to absorb an active amount > of resveratrol into your body > <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009912002003971>, > so any benefits resveratrol may have are entirely irrelevant to > questions about the benefits of drinking wine. (I believe the active > constituent of wine is ethanol.) > >> So, Google Scholar inflates the number of articles that a >> specific researcher has publishes (when I checked for >> my pubs, GS provided multiple hits for a single article > > But Google Scholar, like WoS, now lets you do a citation analysis on > your own work by weeding out the papers that shouldn't be there. > (Click on "My Citations.") Trouble is, Google Scholar seems to > provide no easy way to do this on someone else's work. > >> (e.g., I have a pub in an obscure journal which was not in the >> database but, when it was cited by another researcher -- thanks >> David ;-) > > Good ol' _Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions_. :) > > --David Epstein > da...@neverdave.com > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: paul.bran...@mnsu.edu. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900b&n=T&l=tips&o=15272 > or send a blank email to > leave-15272-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15274 or send a blank email to leave-15274-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
