At a recent meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in the state of New York, Daniel MacArthur of Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, focusing on fuzzy way the line between journalist and science becomes. In addition to reports on genetic variation in a gene that is active in fast muscle fibers Biology of Genomes meeting, MacArthur wrote several posts on blog spot covering progress mentioned by the participants. Francis Collins also mentioned the results on its new website.
A new service on the specialized web GenomeWeb, complained. To attend CSHL meetings, reporters agree to obtain permission from a speaker before writing all results. But MacArthur did not have to click this box when he entered and was free to report without obtaining a green light. Several other participants were chirping, says CSHL meeting organizer David Stewart. "They are not held to the same standards" as the media, Stewart said.
This will change. Stewart revises the registration form to the meeting so that all participants will agree that if they go to a blog or twitter results, they need to let CSHL in advance and obtain agreement the presenter. "We do not legislate what [the scientists] write in an e-mail" to members of the laboratory or consortium, said Stewart, but CSHL is concerned about communications that reach to anonymous third party. "We must ask them to respect same rules. "
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