Scientific Misconduct:
A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging luminary has accused two previous scientific trainees of dubious academic shenanigans if not outright scientific misconduct. Nikos Logothetis discussed his complaints in a news focus published in Nature. Specifically, he: charged that two of his...
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Posted on July 16, 2008 3:35 PM • 24 Comments •
The advocates for legalization of the recreational and clinical use of marijuana and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or "Ecstasy" in street parlance) are quite fond of questioning the observations published by scientists on the detrimental effects which may result from recreational use....
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Posted on July 11, 2008 11:05 AM • 43 Comments •
Readers of the old blog on WordPress will recall that I enlisted BikeMonkey to cover the sports-doping beat a time or two on the old blog. Today's news pried him away from his political ranting commenting for a guest appearance....
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Posted on June 30, 2008 7:29 PM • 4 Comments •
A letter printed in the 20 June 2008 issue of Science magazine proposes an Oath of integrity, professionalism and ethical conduct for graduate students. The authors review the well known Hippocratic Oath which is one of the basic tenets of...
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Posted on June 24, 2008 9:43 AM • 35 Comments •
I was sort of kicking the latest journal article retractions around with a colleague. The Hellinga case. The Buck retraction. A few more in each of our respective spheres. The question came up. How many retractions can a lab survive?...
Posted on June 6, 2008 3:03 AM • 20 Comments •
I'm mired in an effort to respond to a recent post of drdrA's over at Blue Lab Coats on the deceptively simple issue of a manuscript rejection. This post is apparently a rich vein of blog fodder because PhysioProf already...
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Posted on May 20, 2008 1:55 PM • 35 Comments •
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...
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Posted on April 24, 2008 7:46 PM • 29 Comments •
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 •
In a post Abel Pharmboy wrote giving some linklove to our old site on WordPress, he lamented: However, NIH/NSF/other-big-agency grant-funded PhD researchers who spend most of their bandwidth talking about the business of conducting biomedical research are less frequently found...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 9:52 AM • 12 Comments •
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 •
