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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: 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
Category: Academia
Over at Uncertain Principles, Chad ponders faculty "service" in higher education. For those outside the ivy-covered bubble of academe, "service" usually means "committee work" or something like it. The usual concern is that, although committees are necessary to accomplish significant...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:42 PM • 6 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: Doing science for the government
Can a scientist who has made an ethical misstep be rehabilitated and reintegrated as a productive member of the scientific community? Or is your first ethical blunder grounds for permanent expulsion from the community?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:33 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
At his lounge, the Lab Lemming poses an excellent hypothetical question about manuscript review: Suppose you are reviewing a paper. Also assume, that like most papers these days, that it has multiple authors, each of whom applies his expertise to...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:09 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
The New York Times has an article about a physician-scientist caught in scientific misconduct. The particular physician-scientist, Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was an Army surgeon working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is now (for the time being anyway)...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
Bruce Weinstein ("The Ethics Guy" at BusinessWeek.com) offers advice on how to be ethical to the business school class of 2009. His five nuggets of advice seem like good ones for anyone who is interested in being ethical. Two in...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:35 PM • 3 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: Communication
Should "what's mine is yours" be the guiding principle in assigning authorship?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:53 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
He defended the views he expressed in many of his radio programs and said that, because he consulted for so many drugmakers at once, he had no particular bias. "These companies compete with each other and cancel each other...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:07 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
