Bioscience Hypotheses Editorials
This page provides free access to the manuscripts of my Editorials in Bioscience Hypotheses. The fully formatted PDFs are available from ScienceDirect.
| Reference | Title (click on this to access the PDF MSS) | Topic |
| Volume 2(6), 2009, Pages 357-558 | The end of
a (short) line |
Bioscience Hypotheses was a success ... and is closing down. I muse on what we achieved and what that says for the future |
| Volume 2(5), 2009, Pages 277-281 | Leadership
and innovation. How consensus management blocks genuine innovation. |
Genuine advance in research in any field needs leadership and a willingness to strike out against the consensus. Peer review, valuable in some contexts, can suppress this. |
| Volume 2(4), 2009, Pages 193-197 | Evolution,
hypotheses, and the question of whether humans are still evolving. |
Humans are still evolving. But how, and can we have useful hypotheses about the nature of that evolution? If the hypotheses have testable outcomes, we can. |
| Volume 2(3), 2009, Pages 115-117 | Who
should benefit from a good idea? |
How can an idea create wealth for its originator when the patent system is based on implementation? I discuss the issues and speculate on three solutions |
| Volume 2(2), 2009, Pages 57-58 | Evolution
of a Journal. Editorial Policy 2.0 |
Adapting editorial policy to give a bigger role to referees and a more active role to the editor |
| Volume 2(1), 2009, Pages 1-2 |
Hypotheses and humility: Ideas do not have to be right to be useful | Hypotheses can have flaws, providing they are recognised by their authors and addressed honestly |
| Volume 1(6), 2008, Pages 281-285 |
Steam engine time: A review of ‘Ending Ageing’ by Aubrey de Grey | Review and critique of book by the controversial theorist. |
| Volume 1(5), 2008, Pages 233-234 | Name and Shame | New models for encouraging companies to pursue valuable science and technology |
| Volume 1(4), 2008, Pages 177-178 | Technological speculations and science | Value and nature of speculations on technology to scientific advancement |
| Volume 1(3), 2008, Pages 125-126 | Career Insurance: enabling intellectual risks | Financial structures to help rekindle innovative and blue-sky research. |
| Volume 1(2), 2008, Pages 65-66 | Many minds make light: Ideas and entrepreneurship in the life sciences | The value of collaboration in developing genuinely new ideas, and hence the value of publishing those ideas. |
| Volume 1(1), 2008, Page 1 | Welcome to Bioscience Hypotheses | Why our approach and policy makes the journal worth reading |