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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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Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University.

Category: Academia

At Terra Sigillata, Abel notes that the Director of Duke University's Catholic Center is butting in to researchers' attempts to recruit participants for their research. As it happens, that research involves human sexuality and attitudes toward sex toys. Here's how...

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Legal and scientific burdens of proof, and scientific discourse as public controversy: more thoughts on Chandok v. Klessig.

Category: Communication

As promised, I've been thinking about the details of Chandok v. Klessig. To recap, we have a case where a postdoc (Meena Chandok) generated some exciting scientific findings. She and her supervisor (Daniel F. Klessig), along with some coworkers, published...

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Do these claims look defamatory to you?

Category: Current events

You may remember my post from last week involving a case where a postdoc sued her former boss for defamation when he retracted a couple of papers they coauthored together. After that post went up, a reader helpfully hooked me...

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Does a retraction constitute defamation of your coauthor?

Category: Current events

The defendant says the published results are not reproducible; the plaintiff says, stop defaming me!

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Keep holy the furlough day.

Category: Academia

In case you hadn't heard, the State of California is broke. (Actually, probably worse than broke. This is one of those times where we find ourselves glad that our state does not have kneecaps.) As a consequence of this, the...

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Medical ghostwriting and the role of the 'author' who acts as the sheet.

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...

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Name-changes, social science research, and USA Today.

Category: Current events

I'm not a regular reader of USA Today, but Maria tweeted this story, and I feel like I need to say something about it or else risk leaving it rattling around in my head like marbles under a hubcap: About...

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University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers caught falsifying data in animal studies.

Category: Current events

There are days when I imagine that I'll run out of news reports of scientists caught behaving badly to blog about. Then, I check my inbox. Today, my inbox featured a news item in The Scientist about two medical...

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Newspaper's editor exposes intern's plagiarism.

Category: Current events

The Colorado Springs Gazette discovered that a summer intern in their newsroom published articles with plagiarized passages. The editor of the paper, Jeff Thomas, deemed this plagiarism a breach of the paper's trust with the public: [R]eporter Hailey Mac Arthur,...

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Familiar themes in a new instance of scientific misconduct: the Kuklo case.

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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