all in this edition on Blog Buzz.

• An editor tweeted last week that he was quitting Scientific Reports an NPG open access journal over a service which allows authors to pay for expedited peer review by a third party corporation. Science News covers the story here, and has updated it with a link to a copy of a letter from board members of Scientific Reports to NPG raising some questions and concerns.

• On Forbes, Dave Kroll discusses What ’60 Minutes’ Got Right and Wrong on Duke’s Polio Virus Trial Against Glioblastoma. Shara Yurkiewicz also weighed in on the story on MedPage today.

• For those of you who follow discussions of copyright and fair use, Sherwin Siy’s post Fair Use vs. ‘Protected Uses’: Protection Only for the Powerful? at Public Knowledge weighs in on the recent use of GIFs from copyrighted works in a Press Release from the House Judiciary Commitee.

• At the end of February, Nancy Sims (aka @CopyrightLibn) wrote about A Point of Certainty in Fair Use, which is especially important for classroom educators.

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• Buzzfeed Science Editor Virginia Hughes writes on the revelation by Sequenom Laboratories of rare cases where prenatal genetic tests have helped to find cancer in pregnant women. The numbers are still small but are bound to increase, and the ethical questions surrounding how inconclusive results, the possibility of false positives, and a largely unregulated industry interweave here are certainly significant. Read all about it here.

• Lots of posts on the Supreme Court arguments this week…there are several over on Health Affairs Blog, on Vox Understanding ‘Pennhurst’…by Adrianna McIntyre, and from Nicolas Bagley Avoiding Constitutional Avoidance.

• My bioethics “Spidey senses” are tingling again…From MIT Tech Review, a story called Germ Line Engineering with CRISPR Leads to Designer Human Embryos.

• And let’s not forget last week’s net neutrality rulings in which the Federal Communications Commission decided to regulate Broadband as a utility. The SCOTUS Blog provides some “plain English” explanations of the proceedings. You can also find coverage from the NY Times and here is an official joint statement from five library professional organizations, including the Medical Library Association, submitted to the FCC in July supporting net neutrality and Title II as a “practicable” way to protect it.

On built-in spyware, online shaming, valentines and a Nutritionist on superfoods; All in this edition of blog buzz!

• On Slate, a very displeased David Auerbach explains the Lenovo Superfish Scandal and links to a tool owners can use to see if their machine is compromised.

• Dr. Judy Stone’s post at Forbes on the Superbug Scare at UCLA–It’s not the Scopes That Should Scare You is both reassuring and unsettling.

• From superbugs to superfoods, wise words from a Nutritionist on Superfoods and Everyday Heroes.

• There was an interesting piece on social media and shaming by Jon Ronson in the NY Times Magazine, which reminded me of a segment on the most recent episode of Invisibilia called How to Grow a Bully. Let’s all try to be nice to each other, ok?

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