Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats

Re:Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats by apawloski on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @12:53PM (#4475384)

Please don't link io9 for scientific articles -- their science journalism is generally subpar, often barely more than crudely summarizing abstracts in Nature or Science.

In this case they cite the wrong primary author -- attributing the work to Matt Wilson instead of Daniel Bendor. While Matt Wilson is the sponsoring author (ie providing the facilities and general supervision), this is Dr. Bendor's experiment and he is entirely uncredited here.

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Re:Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats by throwaway54-762 on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @02:17PM (#4475757)

Here's the actual Nature article (I love that io9 hides the link by removing any visual indication it's not normal text): http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.320...

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Re:Neuroscientists successfully control the dreams of rats by kanzure on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @04:02PM (#4476266)

I don't think people are generally aware of how awful io9 is, or any of the other science news out there. Even worse is that most science news is pump-and-forget. I don't know how to fix that, or make more people aware in a useful way. Give me the paper or give me death!

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