The
href="http://www.ucsusa.org/">Union of Concerned
Scientists announced the winner of their
Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest: Dr.
href="http://www.evansville.edu/prospects/areasofstudy/history/faculty.asp?print=1&">James
Lachlan MacLeod, Associate Professor of History at the
href="http://www.evansville.edu/">University of Evansville.
According to his webpage,
MacLeod studied history at the University of
Edinburgh, where his doctoral research led to his book, href="http://www.amazon.com/Second-Disruption-Presbyterian-Historical-Monographs/dp/1862320977/sr=1-2/qid=1159935710">The
Second
Disruption: The Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of
the Free Presbyterian Church. The book deals with
social and religious
issues facing late nineteenth-century Scotland.
Sounds like an interesting guy. Anyway, here is his winning
entry, below the fold:
In case you missed the contest,
href="http://ucsaction.org/campaign/vote_now_for_science_idol/forward">here
are the finalists. One entry that did not make it is at
href="http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2006/09/ucs_cartoon_contest_on_global.php">Pure
Pedantry.
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The irony of this winning entry is that the NIH R01 grant mechanism is (with extraordinarily rare exceptions) the least politically influenced source of research funding.