Now on ScienceBlogs: Here we go again. Ecstasy, death...unsubstantiated claims.
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PhysioProf is an NIH-funded basic science faculty member at a private medical school.
September 30, 2009
Category: Call yer CongressCritter
Tthese clowns have no real concern with health relevance because they select grants that hit on the very "relevance" topics that they cite and that fit obviously within general NIH IC missions and the mandate from Congress to fund HIV/AIDS research.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 8:39 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2009
Category: Opiates
One clear factor that comes out time and again in cases of middle-class, so-called "functional" drug dependence is that people are fantastically good at concealing their drug use. Fantastically. And when it all comes out, people around the addicted person are AMAZED how much/often the person was using...and still nobody clued in.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:06 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2009
Category: Conduct of Science
Undergraduate students approach professors with research labs all the time about getting "experience" they think they need for something or other. Typically for med school application in the biological science areas. I think it is bogus to let them in...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:59 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Careerism
Female Science Professor related a tale of a scientist directing inter-laboratory rivalry in a remarkably petty direction: Now consider a different situation - one in which a faculty member in Research Group 1 tells a recent PhD graduate of Research...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:37 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2009
Category: General Politics
So what the heck, if you haven't heard this song before, I hope you like it. Maybe play it for your mini-STEM-in-trainings at home a couple of times.
Posted by bikemonkey at 12:11 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2009
Category: NIH Budgets and Economics
We recently took up the Save-the-New-Investigators defense of the NIH against charges that it is violating the order of primary grant review by untoward administrative shenanigans. I was unhappy with the graphical defense and created a better version. (I see...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:22 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2009
Category: Blogging
For the half-dozen or so of my readers who are actually drug abuse scientists I note the recent issue of the Newsline of CPDD contains an interesting observation from the Publications Committee: In addition, there are an increasing number of...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:25 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Diversity in Science
Professor O'Dell investigates the rewarding and dependence-inducing properties of nicotine in males and females across development from adolescence to adulthood.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 12:55 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2009
Category: Grantsmanship
A colleague of mine just sent me the following e-mail: Dear Comrade PhysioProf: I am reviewing an R21 A1 application that I did not review the original submission. The stupid fuckers who reviewed the original submission dinged the only cool...
Posted by PhysioProf at 3:13 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: NIH
"giving hundreds of millions of dollars a year to scientists whose projects are deemed less scientifically worthy"? That sounds horrible!
Posted by DrugMonkey at 11:31 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
