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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: Medicine
By email, following on the heels of my post about the Merck-commissioned, Elsevier-published fake journal Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, a reader asked whether the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS) also counts as a fake journal....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:53 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
It seems that some people respond to public concern about swine flu and its spread by trying to sell you stuff. This stuff is not limited to face masks and duct tape, but includes products advertised to prevent, diagnose, or...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at DrugMonkey, PhysioProf has written a post on the relative merits of "correct" and "interesting", at least as far as science is concerned. Quoth PhysioProf: It is essential that one's experiments be "correct" in the sense that performing the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What matters, from the point of view of engaging in the scientific discourse, is what you can demonstrate to other participants in that discourse. As far as your scientific activity is concerned, your other beliefs are your own private affair.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:17 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A regular reader of the blog emailed me the following: Have you ever considered setting up a section for laymen in your blog where posts related to the philosophy of science, how research is conducted, how scientists think etc. are...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Who cares what philosophers of science think?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:01 PM • 59 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Does philosophy of science do scientists any good?
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Category: Minds and/or brains
In the May 18th issue of Science, there's a nice review by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg [1] of the literature from developmental psychology that bears on the question of why adults in the U.S. are stubbornly resistant to...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:47 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Philosophy
On the post in which I resorted to flowcharts to try to unpack people's claims about the process involved in building scientific knowledge, Torbjörn Larsson raised a number of concerns: The first problem I have was with "belief". I have...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:12 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Current events
This is another attempt to get to the bottom of what's bugging people about the case of Marcus Ross, Ph.D. in geosciences and Young Earth Creationist. Here, I've tried to distill the main hypotheticals from my last post on the...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:21 PM • 17 Comments •
