Now on ScienceBlogs: Here we go again. Ecstasy, death...unsubstantiated claims.
DrugMonkey is an NIH-funded biomedical research scientist.
PhysioProf is an NIH-funded basic science faculty member at a private medical school.
April 30, 2008
Category: LSD
Albert Hofmann, the chemist who synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938 died of a heart attack on April 29, 2008 at the age of 102. Hofmann (Wikipedia entry) also discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD because of an accidental...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:59 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2008
Category: Cannabis
The Drug Law Blog notes that The Association of the Bar of the City of New York will be discussing Marijuana Arrest Policy tomorrow. In 1977, New York State decriminalized possession of personal use amounts of marijuana. Nonetheless, researchers report...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cannabis
For some reason many people are in denial about cannabis dependence and wish to assert that there is no such thing, or if there is, it is somehow of lesser importance than is dependence on other substances of abuse. There...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:28 PM • 111 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2008
Category: Science Communication
It is no secret (although a much ignored fact) that journals will have a certain "type" of article that they are looking for that has little to do with objective scientific quality. Certain topics are "hot" while others that are...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 8:48 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Careerism
A comment on a recent post of mine asked if I thought technicians should be paid more than postdocs. The direct answer is "no", the more-involved issue revolves around my belief that "internships" and "training periods" are used in essence...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:33 PM • 56 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Welcome our newest ScienceBlogger ERV!!!1!1!!! From her first post here: Other than viruses and evolution, I also post about religion (I know, shocking, but Im an atheist evilutionist in Oklahoma, so I vent, okay?), fitness, grad school stuff, and my...
Posted by PhysioProf at 1:40 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2008
Category: Diversity in Science
I'm a little late to the "gender bias in particle physics" party, where Zuska, DrugMonkey, YoungFemaleScientist, and others too numerous to mention have been tossing back some brewskis and fending off the slobbering gibberish of ridiculous misogynist douchewheels like Gerard...
Posted by PhysioProf at 10:13 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
Zuska already mentioned the report from Sherry Towers on gender bias at the Fermilab in Illinois. This week, however, a news focus in Nature by Geoff Brumfiel takes up the story....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:23 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Day in the life of DrugMonkey
A brief note of best wishes and speedy recovery for Dr. Shulgin. The MAPS recently noted that Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin underwent heart surgery to repair an aortic valve in early April....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 12:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
As purely entertaining as it is to watch PhysioProf troll the Open Access Nozdrul, these discussions always raise at least six interesting avenues for further thought. For example a comment from bill touches on the notion that private "ownership" of...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:46 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
