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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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Newspaper's editor exposes intern's plagiarism.

Category: Current events

The Colorado Springs Gazette discovered that a summer intern in their newsroom published articles with plagiarized passages. The editor of the paper, Jeff Thomas, deemed this plagiarism a breach of the paper's trust with the public: [R]eporter Hailey Mac Arthur,...

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ScienceBlogs survey, and an invitation to introduce yourself.

First, from the Seed Overlords: You may have noticed some pretty yellow banner ads around the site this week. They're advertising a huge reader survey that we're conducting right now. Anyone (excepting Seed employees) who fills it out can enter...

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Bringing the new neighbors some pi (a Sb 2.0 meme).

Category: Blogospheric science

In honor of the arrival of all the new neighbors here at ScienceBlogs Towers, here's a little getting-acquainted meme. 3 reasons you blog about science: To make the scientific method less scary to non-scientists. To examine the ways in which...

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Why "Dr. Free-Ride"?

Category: Introductions

Longtime readers of the previous incarnation of this blog knew me as "Dr. Free-Ride". Most of them, however, never asked where that pseudonym came from. As it happens, the source of the pseudonym was a class discussion (in my "Ethics...

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A quick tour through the vault.

Category: Introductions

Because some of you may be new to "Adventures in Ethics and Science" (having found it by way of the high-powered company I'm keeping here at ScienceBlogs), and because a lot of the cool kids here are doin' it, I...

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