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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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Science and pseudo-science:

Fake journals versus bad journals.

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....

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A warning for the herpeto-unctuous.

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...

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Facts and their interpretation.

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...

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Science and belief.

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.

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Audience participation: help me flag good posts for non-scientists trying to understand science.

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...

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Does writing off philosophy of science cost the scientists anything?

Who cares what philosophers of science think?

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A branch of learning that 'need not be learned'?

Does philosophy of science do scientists any good?

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Resisting scientific ideas.

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...

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What scientists believe and what they can prove (with a flowchart for Sir Karl Popper).

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...

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Scientific and unscientific conclusions: now with pictures!

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...

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