Bill Lyne at the United Faculty of Washington State has an important fact to cite: “(in ) the open letter that University of California President Mark Yudof sent to all Californians on Monday was enough to knock us right on our smug flannel Starbucks asses. “This is a sad day for California,[...]
Archive for January 23rd, 2011
January 23rd, 2011 - 11:31 am § in Uncategorized
Colin Powell on RATIONAL Approches to the Budget.
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January 23rd, 2011 - 9:24 am § in Uncategorized
Example: How the Free Market Can Distort Research
This article from Dr. Humphreys hit home. I have seen the same story before. The problem is not the company’s fault, the problem is a huge crack in how the free market works together with the scientific method to hurt the interests of science and of patients. Let me offer another example. Ever[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 9:18 am § in China
Photocopying censored at Chinese University
from Macleans Police ask students and faculty to report subversive materials Chinese police have ordered students and faculty at Peking University to stop photocopying materials critical of the government. The order posted to the wall by local Yanyuan Police in 29 copy rooms read, “Materials that [...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 1:07 am § in Uncategorized
Update: Should Pope’s Blood Be Withdrawn as a Therapeutic?
When the Federal Drug Administration finds evidence that a treatment does not work, we expect the FDA to withdraw its approval. Should the Vatican meet the same standard? An earlier post at TA discussed the decision by a church in Poland to make some blood of John Paul II, the former Pope, into a ho[...]