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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant 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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Medicine:

Talking with kids about drugs.

With kids who don't seem to be getting any younger, the issue doesn't feel abstract at all.

Should researchers share data?

Are data from cancer research supposed to help cancer patients or career-minded scientists?

A tangle of controversy -- and a plea to start untangling.

You've probably heard that UCLA scientist Edythe London, whose house was earlier vandalized to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars by animal rights activists, has once again been targeted. This time an incendiary device was left on her...

What's a disease?

"What is a disease?" It would be nice to think that this is the kind of question where there are clear-cut, fact-based answers to be had. "Disease" is a term that seems to pick out a category of biological...

Super Bowl parties, double dipping, and strategies for emerging alive.

Via Greg Laden, I see that there is now some research to support our primal revulsion toward double-dippers:...

Tracking down a source.

Maybe you saw the story in the New York Times about new research that may show that ingesting too much caffeine while pregnant increases the chances of miscarriage. And, if you're like me, one of the first things you did...

Ethical considerations in the development of a male birth control pill.

"Why don't they make a birth control pill for men?" There are important considerations from medical ethics that might explain why a birth control pill for men has not happened yet....

There are days when having a body is inconvenient.

Do you know that feeling one gets that is characteristic of "about to come down with something", where you have an off taste in your mouth and your head feels fuzzy, and it seems like the very best thing you...

How not to make the case for animal rights.

People with concerns about the use of animals in biomedical research should also be concerned about the actions of the Animal Liberation Front and other "animal rights" groups -- at least if they want other people to take their concerns...

DVD review: Physicians - Speaking for Research.

The other day I received a DVD made by Americans for Medical Progress called Physicians - Speaking for Research. (They indicate on their site that the DVDs are free for the asking.) This is a DVD aimed at physicians,...

How big a risk is my laser printer?

On the basis of this article about emissions from laser printers, our department administrator came by this week to take my HP 1200 series LaserJet away. I said I wanted to keep it....

A resolution for the Tripoli six.

Almost a year ago, I learned about the case of the Tripoli six, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician in Libya sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of children with HIV despite the fact that the best scientific evidence...

Some questions about the cadaver calculator.

Orac's calculated value (if he shuffled off this mortal coil in his present state -- and I really hope he doesn't) piqued my curiosity and led me to calculate the value of my own potential cadaver. But the calculated value...

Is medicine an art or a science?

In his book Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (reviewed in the last post), Greg Critser includes a quotation from a physician (in a self-help book [1]) that I found really striking: In your...

Book review: Generation Rx.

I recently finished reading Greg Critser's Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies. Frankly, I don't feel so well....

Scientific plausibility of Never Let Me Go.

Since it has come up in the comments on my review of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, I'm going to go ahead and discuss some of the issues around cutting-edge biomedical technologies in the book that might, or...

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