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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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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?

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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...

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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?

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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...

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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)....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Location, location, location: ethical considerations in where to run a clinical trial.

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...

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Coming Monday: our discussion the case of a halted international clinical trial in Cameroon.

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...

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