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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
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: Ethics 101
If you think taking drugs is a moral failing, does that mean you should be against scientific research on drug abuse and treatment?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:17 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
Abel and Orac and Isis have recently called attention to the flak Amy Wallace had been getting for her recent article in WIRED Magazine, "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All". The flak Wallace has...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:43 AM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
I don't know if what I had was H1N1. Should I still get the H1N1 vaccine?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:58 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
In a recent column at Business Week, Bruce Weinstein (aka "The Ethics Guy") argues that multitasking is unethical. He writes of his own technologically assisted slide into doing too many tasks at once: I noticed that the more things I...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:50 PM • 5 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: Ethics 101
As a brief follow-up to my post thinking about Dr. J's view that cats are a special class of being that ought not be used in research, I would like to assert that:...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:03 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
Today, at R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S., Dr J. posted a picture of a charming looking cat with the following text: As little as I can do to push back against the sick minded evil mo-fo bastards who think animal testing on cats is...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:43 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
Opting out of vaccines while others receive them means you receive benefits that others pay for.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:57 PM • 101 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
The ethics of sexual violence seem pretty black and white. And yet sexual violence is a reality -- as a constant threat, if not as something that has been committed -- for more women than you can imagine.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:59 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
