{"id":3234,"date":"2007-11-19T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/11\/boarding-the-bpr3-juggernaut\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T11:19:17","slug":"boarding-the-bpr3-juggernaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/11\/boarding-the-bpr3-juggernaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Boarding the BPR3 juggernaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regulars in the science blogosphere have probably already heard about the Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting<\/a> (BPR3<\/sup>) Initiative, which aims to provide a means of highlighting blog entries which eschew regurgitation of press releases about recently published research and instead examine the papers themselves. Given that press releases have occasionally been known to mangle results and conclusions beyond all recognition<\/a>, and have an irritating habit of not linking back to the papers that they’re talking about, I think that pointing people in the direction of bloggers who have taken the time to report what the peer-reviewed literature actually<\/em> says is a great idea. Last week’s post on the oxygenation of the Earth’s atmosphere<\/a> (which involved a fair amount of literature perusal) was my first opportunity to use one of the nifty BPR3<\/sup> icons<\/a>, but I’ve also gone back through the last three months of posting to add it to other relevant entries:
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