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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: Blogospheric science
Today ScienceBlogs launched a new sponsored blog, Food Frontiers. The sponsor is PepsiCo. Here's the description of what the blog is going to be about from its inaugural post by Sb overlord Evan Lerner:...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:25 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Being an able-bodied member of the workforce is not a permanent position. What are your duties if you're collecting sick-pay?
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Category: Academic integrity
When the evidence available to you is limited, it's probably better to draw the weak conclusion is supports rather than an overly strong one.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
When you're investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research, how do you establish what the accepted practices are? In the wake of ClimateGate, this was the task facing the Investigatory...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
The ethics investigation of Michael Mann turns on what counts as accepted practices for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. How does a committee establish what those accepted practices are?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I'll confess that I am not one who spends much time reading the reviews of books posted on the websites of online booksellers. By the time I'm within a click of those reviews, I pretty much know what I want....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:08 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tribe of Science
In the last post, we looked at a piece of research on how easy it is to clean up the scientific literature in the wake of retractions or corrections prompted by researcher misconduct in published articles. Not surprisingly, in...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:39 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tribe of Science
Science is supposed to be a project centered on building a body of reliable knowledge about the universe and how various pieces of it work. This means that the researchers contributing to this body of knowledge -- for example,...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:15 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Or does it depend on what they have to say about it, and where?
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Category: Communication
Let's say you're a book review editor for a large circulation science periodical. You receive books from publishers and you look for scientists with the relevant expertise to write reviews that really engage the content of the books they are...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:45 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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