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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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Physics:

Physical phenomena, competing models, and evil.

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...

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Anatomy of a scientific fraud: an interview with Eugenie Samuel Reich.

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...

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Book review: Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World.

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...

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The saga of the journal comment.

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?

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Announcing your findings (but not really).

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...

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The mechanics of getting fooled: the multiple failures in the fraud of Jan Hendrik Schön.

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 --...

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Friday Sprog Blogging: leverage.

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?...

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Data paparazzi.

How public are data in a conference presentation? And what happens if someone else gives them more exposure?

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Colleagues behaving badly: symmetry considerations.

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...

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Quantum mechanics for fourth graders.

In search of good reading (or viewing) on the quantum world for the grade school set.

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