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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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Trust and accountability in the vaccine-autism wars.

Category: Communication

There's a new feature article by Liza Gross [1] up at PLoS Biology. Titled "A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine-Autism Wars," the article does a nice job illuminating how the themes of trust and accountability play out in interactions...

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Are you a scientist or a journalist here? Either way, you're bound by ethics.

Category: Communication

Following up on an excellent post she wrote earlier this month, Jessica Palmer at Bioephemera brings us an update on the lawsuit against Jared Diamond and The New Yorker. You may recall that this lawsuit alleges that a story written...

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Proposed guidelines for embryonic stem cells: applying new ethical rules to old research.

Category: Current events

You may have heard that the Obama administration has proposed new rules for federal funding of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. (The proposed rules are available in draft form through the end of the public comment period; the NIH expects...

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Researchers talking to journalists should assume the public might be listening.

Category: Communication

If you're speaking to the public as a scientist (including speaking to the public through a journalist), you have some responsibilities.

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Another conundrum: whether to engage with the Huffington Post.

Category: Communication

Should scientists try to counter woo-meisters on their home turf?

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Impediments to dialogue about animal research (part 8).

Category: Communication

Suggestions for how to have a productive dialogue about animal research.

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Framing poll questions.

Category: Communication

Remember earlier this week when we were discussing some of the positions people might hold with respect to the use of animals in research? These included animal rights positions, which held that animals have inherent rights not to have their...

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Impediments to dialogue about animal research (part 7).

Category: Communication

When dialogue about animal research feels like talking to a brick wall, maybe it's not the wall you're trying to reach.

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Impediments to dialogue about animal research (part 6).

Category: Communication

It's not just your view, but what you're willing to do to advance it.

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Impediments to dialogue about animal research (part 5).

Category: Communication

Conflating animal welfare and animal rights blocks dialogue about animal research.

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