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Dialogue about animal research: save the date!
Dialogue about animal research: save the date!For those of you who have heard me issue calls for dialogue (not debate) on the subject of research with non-human animals -- especially if you're in the...
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In the wake of ClimateGate: findings of the misconduct inquiry against...
In the wake of ClimateGate: findings of the misconduct inquiry against Michael Mann.Remember "ClimateGate", that well-publicized storm of controversy that erupted when numerous email messages from the...
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ClimateGate, the Michael Mann inquiry, and accepted scientific practices.
ClimateGate, the Michael Mann inquiry, and accepted scientific practices.In my earlier post about the findings of the Penn State inquiry committee looking into allegations of research misconduct...
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What to do when your coauthor doesn't return your calls.
What to do when your coauthor doesn't return your calls.Dr. Isis considers a downside to having coauthors and an ethical question it raises: Imagine a hypothetical postdoc that has just left graduate...
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Ethical use of student labor.
Ethical use of student labor.MommyProf wonders whether some of the goings on in her department are ethical. She presents two cases. I'm going to look at them in reverse order. Case 2: Faculty member is...
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What's the point of peer review?
What's the point of peer review?Once again, I'm going to "get meta" on that recent paper on blogs as a channel of scientific communication I mentioned in my last post. Here, the larger question I'd...
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Common ground and deeply held differences: a reply to Bruins for Animals.
Common ground and deeply held differences: a reply to Bruins for Animals.In a post last month, I noted that not all (maybe even not many) supporters of animal rights are violent extremists, and that...
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Ask Dr. Free-Ride: Ethically, which field of science is the worst?
Ask Dr. Free-Ride: Ethically, which field of science is the worst?A reader writes: I was in a PhD program in materials science, in a group that did biomedical research (biomaterials end of the field)...
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Ethics case study: science goes to the dogs.
Ethics case study: science goes to the dogs.I want to apologize for the infrequency of my posting lately. Much of it can be laid at the feet of end-of-term grading, although today I've been occupied...
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In search of accepted practices: the final report on the investigation of...
In search of accepted practices: the final report on the investigation of Michael Mann (part 2).When you're investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for...
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