Science Politics:
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 on April 29, 2008 6:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The great sociological philosopher Eric Cartman provided a bit of gentle guidance on acceding to the wisdom of authority in one of his more famous works. A somewhat lesser philosophical talent offers similar advice in a comment posted to a...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 2:14 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In his classic song the great philosopher and student of addictive disorders, Hank Williams, Jr., blames a traditional source for increasing the probability of developing substance abuse: ....Hank why do you drink? (Hank) why do you roll smoke? Why must...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 1:48 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In a recent post Uncertain Chad opines that a "very good reason" for the "veil of confidentiality surrounding tenure decisions" is so that external referees will be free to derail someone's career with unsubstantiated accusations of scientific misconduct. This is...
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Posted on March 26, 2008 3:19 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Huffington Post blogger David Sloan Wilson wonders why the Huffington Post has no section for "Science". I am reminded of this cover every time I visit the Huffington Post and see the words "Politics," "Media," "Business," "Entertainment," and "Living" on...
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Posted on March 24, 2008 4:35 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Writedit ponders a recent Nature piece on PIs who hold largish numbers of awards and dollars from the NIH. The post from writedit covers some recent policy proposals seeking to limit the total number of awards any one PI can...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 9:48 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
According to this online dictionary, offended is defined, in part, thusly: (v. tr.) 1. To cause displeasure, anger, resentment, or wounded feelings in. I've been thinking about the concept of giving / taking offense and/or the state of being offended...
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Posted on March 20, 2008 12:52 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I previously noted a new website (brokenpipeline.org) and glossy report on the career "pipeline" problem currently experienced by biomedical research science in the US. This report catalyzed more discussion in the blogosphere on the issue (SciGuy, Jonathan Gitlin, Greg Laden,...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 8:20 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As we discussed contemporaneously here at DrugMonkey, Nature published a retraction last week of a paper from the laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Linda Buck. At his eponymous blog, fellow ScienceBlogger Greg Laden also posted a piece on the retraction....
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Posted on March 12, 2008 5:20 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A group of research institutes have apparently banded together to discuss the dismal prospects of younger and transitioning research scientists, producing a slick overview document hosted at brokenpipeline.org. Participating institutions include Harvard, Brown, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Duke Medicine, Partner's Healthcare and...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 2:11 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
