Category: Astronomy/astrophysics
Over at Cosmic Variance, Julianne Dalcanton describes a strategy for scientific communication that raises some interesting ethical issues: Suppose you (and perhaps a competing team) had an incredibly exciting discovery that you wrote up and submitted to Nature. Now suppose...
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Category: Communication
Almost a month ago, I told you about a pair of new case studies released by The Global Campaign for Microbicides which examine why a pair of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) clinical trials looking at the effectiveness of antiretrovirals in preventing...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
The New York Times has an article about a physician-scientist caught in scientific misconduct. The particular physician-scientist, Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was an Army surgeon working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is now (for the time being anyway)...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:59 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
There's an interesting piece in the Chicago Tribune on the "Oprah effect". The upshot is that products or people who Oprah deigns to grace with airtime tend to find enormous public acceptance. While this is well and good if the...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:47 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
In a recent post, Candid Engineer raised some interesting questions about data and ethics:...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:40 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
There's a new feature article by Liza Gross [1] up at PLoS Biology. Titled "A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine-Autism Wars," the article does a nice job illuminating how the themes of trust and accountability play out in interactions...
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Category: Communication
Following up on an excellent post she wrote earlier this month, Jessica Palmer at Bioephemera brings us an update on the lawsuit against Jared Diamond and The New Yorker. You may recall that this lawsuit alleges that a story written...
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Category: Communication
As a celebrity, what are your duties to people listening to your medical advice?
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Category: Communication
Earlier this week, I found out about a pair of new case studies being released by The Global Campaign for Microbicides. These cases examine why a pair of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) clinical trials looking at the effectiveness of microbicides antiretrovirals...
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Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
Stealth advocacy or just poorly executed ethical analysis?
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