Academic science's self-inflicted wound
More paperwork in my future.Posted on July 11, 2008 7:41 AM • 3 Comments •
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Academia:
The main point of "Why the Right Wing attacks science"
It's not what, but who.Posted on June 16, 2008 7:09 AM • 42 Comments •
The Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
Charges of bioterrorism dismissed against an art professor who used a common bacterium to protest biological warfare.Posted on April 24, 2008 3:56 PM • 50 Comments •
RIP: Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923 – March 5, 2008)
We lose an old friend.Posted on March 15, 2008 7:58 AM • 18 Comments •
When the subject is history are the research subjects human subjects?
Assuring human subjects protection in the humanities?Posted on February 11, 2008 3:57 PM • 13 Comments •
Director of NIH environmental institute resigns under fire
Another one down.Posted on February 9, 2008 7:57 AM • 19 Comments •
Lightweight dinosaur, heavyweight publishing event
A weird dinosaur with hollow bones and cranium is now for all to see. Yes, we mean all. No subscription required.Posted on November 15, 2007 3:51 PM • 1 Comments •
Authorship on scientific papers
Would you rather have your name first, second or last on a scientific paper? And who cares?Posted on November 14, 2007 4:07 PM • 13 Comments •
The lab chief
Nine kinds of Principal Investigator.Posted on October 21, 2007 2:00 PM • 15 Comments •
A moving story for a school of public health
A school of public health prepares to make a new home for itself.Posted on October 11, 2007 4:51 PM • 3 Comments •
Send a blogger to college, take 2
Shelley Batts. Shelley Batts. Shelley Batts. Remember that name.Posted on October 8, 2007 7:16 PM • 3 Comments •
Good enough for government work
An inlfuential university. Oh, God. . .Posted on June 29, 2007 4:25 PM • 5 Comments •
Nature Precedings
Biology and biomedical research comes of agePosted on June 25, 2007 4:24 PM • 8 Comments •
Sad days at NIEHS
Bush-style scandal reaches NIH.Posted on April 27, 2007 4:00 PM • 22 Comments •
A medical journal is born
Open Medicine, a major new general medical journal launced.Posted on April 25, 2007 4:54 PM • 3 Comments •
Are colleges and universities making the grade in flu planning?
Will your college or university survive a pandemic?Posted on February 28, 2007 7:00 AM • 34 Comments •
Taking research money from Big Tobacco
Should universities ban research support from tobacco companies?Posted on January 23, 2007 4:55 PM • 11 Comments •
Send a blogger to college
Scibling is finalist for blogger scholarship. You can put her over the top.Posted on November 3, 2006 6:24 PM • 5 Comments •
The scourge of PowerPoint
The bullet points bite back.Posted on November 3, 2006 7:50 AM • 24 Comments •
The Imposter
He wasn't what he thought he was but just what we thought he was.Posted on July 12, 2006 7:49 AM • 32 Comments •
Perception of political bias on campus
No surprise that the American public is more concerned about how to pay for higher education than they are about the ideology of its purveyors. If I had to pay for it today (and were still paying my kids' freight),...Posted on June 11, 2006 7:10 AM • 6 Comments •
