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About PLOS Blogs

PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all. Our active blogs are written and edited by internal PLOS staff and include The Official PLOS Blog, EveryONE, Speaking of Health and Medicine, PLOS Biologue, and Latitude. These blogs serve as a communications platform for organizational and journal updates as well as resources, news and thought leadership relevant to the scholarly community. For general questions or concerns regarding our blogs, please contact [email protected].

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Where the comment function is available, we welcome civil discussion and comments by authors and readers on matters of scientific interest. We do not permit comments that target an author’s personal character; debate must address the scientific substance, not the individual. As a publisher of scientific research, we also reserve the right to not post comments that — in our view — are not sufficiently supported by scientific evidence. We encourage commenters with extensive critiques of individual studies discussed in our blog posts to post those criticisms on websites of the original articles where the authors can respond.

Licensing, Copyright and Reuse of PLOS Blogs Network Content

Unless otherwise noted, material posted to any PLOS staff or independent blog on the PLOS Blog Network is available for reuse by readers under a CC BY Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.

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Under a CC BY license, the individual blogger owns the copyright but allows anyone to copy and distribute the work provided the individual blogger is given credit as the author, and PLOS Blogs is credited as the source. For more information please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Archived blogs

Certain Independent blogs housed under the heading of “Archived Blogs,” may maintain a CC BY‑NC Creative Commons Distribution license. Any blog or image posts carrying this CC BY‑NC  license require different reuse terms as follows: the blogger owns the copyright and allows anyone to copy and distribute the work, provided the reuse is for noncommercial purposes only, the blogger is given credit as author, and PLOS Blogs is credited as the source. For more information please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

To request for commercial reuse of a CC BY-NC PLOS Blogs post or image, please email your request to [email protected]. We will then forward such queries to the individual bloggers.

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