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May 29, 2009
Category: General Politics
BikeMonkey Guest PostTheScienceGirl writes about the Obama SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor and her critics: The responses from the media are incredibly predictable; already we have claims of affirmative action, identity politics, and reverse racism. All three of these defenses have...
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Category: Scientific Meetings
I know I've mentioned this before but two of the substance-abuse type academic societies really annoy me for their habit of closely scheduling their annual meetings in late June. Typically the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the Research...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:26 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2009
Category: MDMA
Abel Pharmboy has re-posted a blog entry he first published in Dec 2005 entitled Rave drug testing - public benefit?. Sounds like a good thing to me: your kid is at a rave party and wants to experiment with some...
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May 27, 2009
Son of Beast is kinda cute though.
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Category: Grantsmanship
A couple of commenters and YHN were speculating, only partially in fun, that the next couple of NIH grant rounds were high value targets. My rationale is that after this whole ARRA / Challenge wackaloonery passes, people are going to...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:16 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2009
Category: Conduct of Science
When I first started working at a medical center, I noticed that almost everyone in scrubs was wearing these weird-ass dorky shoes that looked like a high-school shop class project gone awry. I asked one of them what the fucking...
Posted by PhysioProf at 4:47 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 22, 2009
It is an ethical lapse? Sure it is...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2009
Category: Conduct of Science
Mad Hatter has an excellent post up today concerning her attitude towards science. As she so eloquently puts it: My dirty little secret is that I don't love science. Don't get me wrong--I'm very happy with my job and career...
Posted by PhysioProf at 3:54 PM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Parenthood
Sheril Kirshenbaum has a post up On Motherhood, Identity and Feminism over at The Intersection. A friend recently pointed me to this particularly ridiculous article criticizing moms who post profile photos of their children*. The author Katie Roiphe goes so...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:15 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animals in Research
An argument against an animal model justifies other animal models?
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:09 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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