Tribe of Science:
SciMonkbling Evil Monkey has a post up at Neurotopia (Version 2.0) in which he rails against idiot reviewer comments found in the summary statements. These latter are the written critiques provided by the three (typically) reviewers assigned to a NIH...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 12:45 PM • 2 Comments •
Karen Ventii of the Science to Life blog recently defended her dissertation. I offer my heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Ventii on a job well done and look forward to an undoubtedly stellar career in science and medical writing Run...
Posted on July 21, 2008 6:16 PM • 1 Comments •
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 •
Pioneering cardiac and vascular surgeon Michael E. DeBakey passed away last week. He was an absolute lion of surgical innovation. And it wasn't as though he didn't have a little prime-time lustre himself. DeBakey, physician to such notables as the...
Posted on July 14, 2008 3:22 AM • 6 Comments •
It is a hard thing when somebody is lost from your subfield. We talk a lot about competition, scooping and limited funding resources but in the vast majority of cases, the interactions with your fellow scientists are just plain enjoyable....
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Posted on July 13, 2008 2:04 PM • 8 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 •
We had a previous extended discussion on the ways in which scientists might react to the rejection of a submitted manuscript which followed a post over at double-doc's place. The discussions following all of these posts touched on one of...
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Posted on July 7, 2008 9:53 PM • 30 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 •
One of my agents passed along the link to BiomedExperts, the latest tool to geek away endless hours obsessing about your publications. Or, more precisely your cloud of scientific collaborators (and their collaborators....) linked through your co-authored publications....
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Posted on June 23, 2008 9:59 AM • 2 Comments •
