Friday Sprog Blogging: placebo effect.
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In which the Free-Ride offspring propose experiments that might not get past the IRB.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:35 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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How to eliminate 'any possible conflicts of interest'.
Category: Current events
There is a story posted at ProPublica (and co-published with the Chicago Tribune) that examines a particular psychiatrist who was paid by a pharmaceutical company to travel around the U.S. to promote one of that company's antipsychotic drugs. Meanwhile, the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:47 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Funding scientific research that people "don't approve of".
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
Some tactics always stink.
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
A question for the infectious disease and public health folks.
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
Psychohazard.
Category: Biology
The other day, while surfing the web, my better half came upon this semi-official looking symbol for psychohazards: The verbiage underneath the symbol seem to indicate conditions that might have serious consequences for one's picture of the world and its...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:13 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
H1N1 flu on campus.
Category: Academia
In my university mailbox yesterday I received a memo detailing measures to help prevent the spread of flu (whether seasonal or novel H1N1)....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Medical ghostwriting and the role of the 'author' who acts as the sheet.
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
Lunch plate audit.
Category: Food
PalMD is trying to eat better (and drop a little weight). Dr. Isis has been offering some advice on what sorts of meals might help Pal cut the calories while still being healthy and satisfying. Pal has been taking the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:13 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers caught falsifying data in animal studies.
Category: Current events
There are days when I imagine that I'll run out of news reports of scientists caught behaving badly to blog about. Then, I check my inbox. Today, my inbox featured a news item in The Scientist about two medical...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:23 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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