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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: Blogospheric science
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) The session was led by John McKay and Eric Michael Johnson. John posted...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:03 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: We will be talking about how the history of science and the history of the open-access movement have intersected. Steven Johnson touches on this theme in his latest book, The Invention of Air, in that 18th century...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
A day later than promised, let's kick off our discussion of "Research Rashomon: Lessons from the Cameroon Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Trial Site" (PDF). The case study concerns a clinical trial of whether tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug, could prevent HIV infection. Before...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
The Independent reports that drug giant Pfizer has agreed to pay a $75 million settlement nine years after Nigerian parents whose children died in a drug trial brought legal action against the company. It's the details of that drug trial...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:53 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Globalizing science
There were some really good discussions of ally work in the gender in science session led by Zuska, Alice, and Abel and in the race in science session led by Danielle Lee and AcmeGirl. One of the issues that has...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:50 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You know what makes an already scary world a lot scarier? When a government decides it's a crime for disease researchers to do their job. From Declan Butler: Iran has summarily tried two of the nation's HIV researchers with communicating...
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Maybe you heard about the melamine contamination issue when tainted pet food started killing pets. But, if you don't have a pet, maybe you didn't worry so much. Or maybe you noticed when tainted infant formula started sending infants to...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
2008 is the tenth year of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science awards to remarkable female scientists from around the world. Indeed, our sister-site, ScienceBlogs.de, covered this year's award ceremony and is celebrating women in science more generally with a...
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