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Category: Current events
Just what kind of science economics is presumed to be?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:43 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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: Current events
Just what kind of science economics is presumed to be?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:43 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
Steinn apparently knows how to get me riled about wrong-headed middle school fundraising initiatives, since he nearly derailed my efforts to push through my stack of grading with his recent post about one such initiative. He quotes from a Raleigh...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:53 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
There is a story posted at ProPublica (and co-published with the Chicago Tribune) that examines a particular psychiatrist who was paid by a pharmaceutical company to travel around the U.S. to promote one of that company's antipsychotic drugs. Meanwhile, the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:47 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:40 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:44 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:20 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
The defendant says the published results are not reproducible; the plaintiff says, stop defaming me!
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:23 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:13 PM • 27 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: 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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:26 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks