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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: Astronomy/astrophysics
Over at Starts with a Bang, Ethan Siegel expressed exasperation that Nature and New Scientist are paying attention to (and lending too much credibility to) an astronomical theory Ethan views as a non-starter, Modified Netwonian Dynamics (or MOND): [W]hy is...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:46 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book review
Eugenie Samuel Reich is a reporter whose work in the Boston Globe, Nature, and New Scientist will be well-known to those with an interest in scientific conduct (and misconduct). In Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:52 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book review
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009 The scientific enterprise is built on trust and accountability. Scientists are accountable both to the world they are...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:04 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 • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy/astrophysics
Over at Cosmic Variance, Julianne Dalcanton describes a strategy for scientific communication that raises some interesting ethical issues: Suppose you (and perhaps a competing team) had an incredibly exciting discovery that you wrote up and submitted to Nature. Now suppose...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Misconduct
There's an interesting article in the Telegraph by Eugenie Samuel Reich looking back at the curious case of Jan Hendrik Schön. In the late '90s and early '00s, the Bell Labs physicist was producing a string of impressive discoveries --...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:17 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
This morning, I came upon the younger Free-Ride playing a game. Younger offspring: I'm playing "launch the bear". Dr. Free-Ride: Oh, really?...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How public are data in a conference presentation? And what happens if someone else gives them more exposure?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:12 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go to Cosmic Variance at once to read Julianne Dalcanton's musings on why spherical jerks (not the word she uses) are preferable to the asymmetric ones: No one is surprised when a known, calibrated asshole acts up. We all just...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In search of good reading (or viewing) on the quantum world for the grade school set.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:12 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
