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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 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: Ethical research
I want to apologize for the infrequency of my posting lately. Much of it can be laid at the feet of end-of-term grading, although today I've been occupied with a meeting of scientists at different career stages to which I...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:38 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
And what kind of empirical evidence could we get to answer the question?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:26 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
In a post last month, I noted that not all (maybe even not many) supporters of animal rights are violent extremists, and that Bruins for Animals is a group committed to the animal rights position that was happy to take...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:35 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Once again, I'm going to "get meta" on that recent paper on blogs as a channel of scientific communication I mentioned in my last post. Here, the larger question I'd like to consider is how peer review -- the back...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:04 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
MommyProf wonders whether some of the goings on in her department are ethical. She presents two cases. I'm going to look at them in reverse order. Case 2: Faculty member is tenure-track and he and I have collaborated on a...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:46 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
You never call, you never write. Can you please sign off on the manuscript so we can finally submit it?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:56 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Discuss the question of what counts (or should count) as accepted scientific practices without the annoying background noise of climate change denial.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:37 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Penn State's inquiry committee reports on allegations against Michael Mann, laying the ground for an investigation that may have broad implications for the practice of science in academia.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:53 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcements
For those of you who have heard me issue calls for dialogue (not debate) on the subject of research with non-human animals -- especially if you're in the Los Angeles area -- I'm pleased to announce that there's an event...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
