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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: 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: 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: Communication
If journal policies and practices aren't aimed at helping scientists communicate important information with the scientific community, what are they aimed at doing?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:35 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Institutional ethics
In my last post, I mentioned Richard Gallagher's piece in The Scientist, Fairness for Fraudsters, wherein Gallagher argues that online archived publications ought to be scrubbed of the names of scientists sanctioned by the ORI for misconduct so that they...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:32 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
Incentivizing ethical behavior, navigating power dynamics, and a miraculous plan involving three buttons.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:43 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
Meet Sean Cutler, a biology professor who argues that scientific competition doesn't have to get down and dirty.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:03 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
Are the existing regulations on animal use too loose, or too strict? (Can we answer the question without knowing what the regulations actually require?)
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You know how graduate students are always complaining that their stipends are small compared to the cost of living? It seems that some graduate students find ways to supplement that income ... ways that aren't always legal. For example, from...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:36 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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