What is "the normal way to debate and discuss scientific findings" anyway?
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Critical discussion of published work on a blog is unfair, is it?
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October 31, 2008
"We need a President who wants to understand and can understand..."
Category: General Politics
Remember the Policy-Wonk-In-Chief jokes?
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:30 PM • 9 Comments •
October 30, 2008
Honestly Nature, you at least understand that this is misleading...don't you?
Category: Science Communication
This would be funny if it weren't going to be used, extensively, to defend policies which continue to block the transition and advance of younger scientists. A News bit in Nature overviews a paper [pdf] which reports on the number...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:10 PM • 27 Comments •
EndNote X2 is annoying and the vendor response is maddening!
Category: Science Publication
EndNote and competing bibliographic software packages are an awesome contribution to the scientific enterprise. Let's just get that straight. I am a huge fan. I've run across colleagues as recently as the past 2 years who do not use such...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:34 PM • 18 Comments •
October 29, 2008
The Homestretch...on the DonorsChoose Challenge
Category: DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge
There are only a few more days left for you to participate in the DrugMonkey Blog Reader Challenge. In case you've managed to miss the prior posts, we are joining the other ScienceBlogs' participation in the DonorsChoose.org Bloggers Challenge....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:08 PM • 0 Comments •
Seed Recommends a US Presidential Selection
Category: General Politics
Barack Obama. The Seed editorial endorsement from Adam Bly can be found here. An unsurprising selection, but welcome nevertheless....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:49 PM • 3 Comments •
Talking points for NIH funded science
Category: NIH Budgets and Economics
Since many of our US readers are feeling jazzed about politics right about now, it is a good time to discuss Talking Points. You, DearReader, whether in the biomedical science biz or merely interested in some aspect of biomedical science,...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 8:49 AM • 2 Comments •
October 28, 2008
RFA for PTSD Pharmacotherapy: Calling Clinical MDMA?
Category: MDMA
A coming wave of PTSD suffering warfighters motivates urgent research into new therapeutic approaches.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:25 PM • 5 Comments •
Original art from the one and only BioE! is on offer
Category: DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge
The artist/scientist blogger occasionally known as bioephemera is offering up a very tasty prize as inducement to contribute to the BioE's Classroom of Curiosity 2008 DonorsChoose Bloggers challenge. So here it is, readers: I'm going to do something to persuade...
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October 27, 2008
California's Proposition 8 Means H8...or does it?
Category: General Politics
Can someone please put forward one bloody argument for California's Proposition 8 that does not boil down to "Umm, I just don't like gay people"?
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:19 PM • 34 Comments •
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