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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: Passing thoughts
The younger Free-Ride offspring's soccer team has been playing in a regional tournament this weekend, and we're girding our loins and guarding our shins to go out and play a second day of tournament games. I'm happy that they're playing...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:22 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: Current events
You may remember my post from last week involving a case where a postdoc sued her former boss for defamation when he retracted a couple of papers they coauthored together. After that post went up, a reader helpfully hooked me...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:20 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Curricular issues
In my philosophy of science class yesterday, we talked about Semmelweis and his efforts to figure out how to cut the rates of childbed fever in Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s. Before we dug into the details, I mentioned...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:11 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
Ed Yong and DrugMonkey have dusted off the invitation (seen here last summer) for readers to take a moment to introduce themselves in the comments. It seems like a good idea to me, so I'm going to play along:...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:46 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Institutional ethics
In my last post, I mentioned Richard Gallagher's piece in The Scientist, Fairness for Fraudsters, wherein Gallagher argues that online archived publications ought to be scrubbed of the names of scientists sanctioned by the ORI for misconduct so that they...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:32 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Curricular issues
This just came up in a plenary session I'm attending, looking at how best to convey the nature of science in K-12 science education (roughly ages 5-18). It's not really a question about the content of the instruction, which people...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:53 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I have a quick question for the hive-mind: Where are good places with free wifi in Boston, Cambridge, and Wellesley?...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:28 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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