More than half of neuroscientists in the U.S. — and even more in Germany — stand by the idea that scientific journals shouldn't publish research that has already been reported in the news media, according to a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper cited by Ivan Oransky's Embargo Watch. Oransky writes that the paper "explains why scientists err on the side of conforming to a strict version of the rule that journals don’t even support anymore."
