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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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How to eliminate 'any possible conflicts of interest'.

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...

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Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University.

Category: Academia

At Terra Sigillata, Abel notes that the Director of Duke University's Catholic Center is butting in to researchers' attempts to recruit participants for their research. As it happens, that research involves human sexuality and attitudes toward sex toys. Here's how...

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Funding scientific research that people "don't approve of".

Category: Ethics 101

If you think taking drugs is a moral failing, does that mean you should be against scientific research on drug abuse and treatment?

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How did we do at dialogue?

Category: Communication

In a recent post, I issued an invitation: I am always up for a dialogue on the issue of our moral relation to animals and on the ethical use of animals in scientific research. If folks inclined towards the animal...

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Physical phenomena, competing models, and evil.

Category: Astronomy/astrophysics

Over at Starts with a Bang, Ethan Siegel expressed exasperation that Nature and New Scientist are paying attention to (and lending too much credibility to) an astronomical theory Ethan views as a non-starter, Modified Netwonian Dynamics (or MOND): [W]hy is...

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Signing a public petition means taking a public stand.

Category: Ethical research

This, in turn, means that members of the public who strongly disagree with your stand may decide to track you down and let you know they disagree with you. Apparently, this may become an issue for those who signed the...

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If you enter a dialogue, do you risk being co-opted?

Category: Communication

On my earlier post, "Dialogue, not debate", commenter dave c-h posed some interesting questions: Is there an ethical point at which engagement is functionally equivalent to assent? In other words, is there a point at which dialogue should be replaced...

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Dialogue, not debate.

Category: Communication

At the end of last week, I made a quick trip to UCLA to visit with some researchers who, despite having been targets of violence and intimidation, are looking for ways to engage with the public about research with animals....

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Psychohazard.

Category: Biology

The other day, while surfing the web, my better half came upon this semi-official looking symbol for psychohazards: The verbiage underneath the symbol seem to indicate conditions that might have serious consequences for one's picture of the world and its...

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Who's a scientist?

Category: Tribe of Science

At Philosophers' Playground, Steve Gimbel ponders the pedagogically appropriate way to label William Dembski: I'm wrapping up work on my textbook Methods and Models: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science and have run into a question. ... The...

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