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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Academic integrity
When the evidence available to you is limited, it's probably better to draw the weak conclusion is supports rather than an overly strong one.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
When you're investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research, how do you establish what the accepted practices are? In the wake of ClimateGate, this was the task facing the Investigatory...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
The ethics investigation of Michael Mann turns on what counts as accepted practices for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. How does a committee establish what those accepted practices are?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tribe of Science
Especially in student papers, plagiarism is an issue that it seems just won't go away. However, instructors cannot just give up and permit plagiarism without giving up most of their pedagogical goals and ideals. As tempting a behavior as...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:18 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
Back in December (or as we academics call it, Exam-Grading Season), esteemed commenter Ewan told us about a horrifying situation that was unfolding for him: Probably not totally relevant, but frankly I'm still in a little shock. Graded exams Friday...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:49 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
This week the New York Times reported on the problem of drug company-sponsored ghostwriting of articles in the scientific literature: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation's top medical schools have been attaching their...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:58 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
The headlines bring news of another scientist (this time a physician-scientist) caught committing fraud, rather than science. This story is of interest in part because of the scale of the deception -- not a paper or two, but perhaps dozens...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... and the university, in turn, fires the professor.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:27 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As the new calendar year approaches, I can't help but anticipate the coming spring semester -- and to hold out the hope that this one will be the semester in which none of my students commits plagiarism. Otherwise, I'm facing...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:47 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the 20/27 December 2007 issue of Nature, there's a fascinating commentary by Cambridge University neuroscientists Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir. Entitled "Professor's little helper," this commentary explores, among other things, how "cognitive-enhancing drugs" are starting to find their way...
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