What is wrong with Google’s superior software for scientists?

Territorial disputes

Software, like EndNote, for managing references is basically trash

Where are your error bars?
Experimental observations always are coming with uncertainties. Any measurement is an estimate of the real value, if indeed such an objective value exist. The uncertainty in the magnitude of a measured quantity is more important as the value itself. Many readers will find this remark alarming. The determination of the “error bars” is considered a dull, [...]

Social responsibility of scientists
This post is not about building the atomic bomb or chemical weapons. It is about being sensitive to a basic and yet very important ethical issue in producing and publishing science: Honesty. Publishing in science is based upon trust. No review mechanism, no matter how sophisticated its design is, can overcome systematic fraud when it is practiced [...]

Social networking in science
Social networks are everywhere. Personally I like Facebook to keep track of old friends and add new ones. These friends are mostly of nonscientific background. Until recently I had never realized the importance of social networks in science. When you do your PhD and perhaps some postdoc projects here and there, it is hard to [...]

Editing Wikipedia
Nowadays Wikipedia is commonly used by scientists at every possible level to make quick and dirty check on the most various facts. It might be the exact form of a mathematical formula, the definition of some quantity or even the birthdate of some famous collegue. For simple facts we can say that Wikipedia entries are [...]

Can we refer to Wikipedia articles in a scientific paper?
I think Wikipedia articles should never be allowed as references in the primary scientific literature. Generation gap The young generation is on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The older generation, if participating in a social network, will join the more sober-headed  LinkedIn. Young people even leave a virtual social network if they discover that too many members are [...]