Carl Boettiger

Turn­ing the author-list into a peti­tion is becom­ing an almost famil­iar ruse in the table of con­tents of jour­nals such as Nature , . This as prompted some rather provoca­tive com­men­tary on whether we have begun con­duct­ing sci­en­tific debates as pop­u­lar­ity con­tests rather than argu­ments of evi­dence and logic (see David Sloan Wil­son on inclu­sive …