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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: Ethics 101
As a brief follow-up to my post thinking about Dr. J's view that cats are a special class of being that ought not be used in research, I would like to assert that:...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:03 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
Today, at R.E.S.E.A.R.C.H.E.R.S., Dr J. posted a picture of a charming looking cat with the following text: As little as I can do to push back against the sick minded evil mo-fo bastards who think animal testing on cats is...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:43 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
You may recall a couple years ago when the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique started issuing badges. Now, the Science Scouts have a spiffy new webpage and many new badges ... and...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy/astrophysics
Over at Cosmic Variance, Julianne Dalcanton describes a strategy for scientific communication that raises some interesting ethical issues: Suppose you (and perhaps a competing team) had an incredibly exciting discovery that you wrote up and submitted to Nature. Now suppose...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:38 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
The New York Times has an article about a physician-scientist caught in scientific misconduct. The particular physician-scientist, Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, was an Army surgeon working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is now (for the time being anyway)...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:59 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Dr. Isis reports that faculty and staff at MRU will be taking unpaid "furlough" days to deal with a budget crisis: In many cases, faculty (some of whom already do not receive summer support) will be asked to take furlough...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:56 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethical research
In a recent post, Candid Engineer raised some interesting questions about data and ethics:...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:40 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
How a paper which purports to be about medical ethics itself falls short of a central tenet of medical ethics.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:26 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethics 101
Bruce Weinstein ("The Ethics Guy" at BusinessWeek.com) offers advice on how to be ethical to the business school class of 2009. His five nuggets of advice seem like good ones for anyone who is interested in being ethical. Two in...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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