Why I, a founder of PLOS, am forsaking open access By Michael Eisen | Published: April 1, 2014 PLEASE NOTE BEFORE YOU READ THIS THAT IT WAS WRITTEN FOR APRIL FOOLS DAY ON DR. EISEN’S WEBSITE!!! I co-founded the Public Library of Science (PLOS) in 2002 because I believed deeply that the open a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘anti Science’
January 13th, 2015 - 10:45 am § in Misc.
RADICAL REPUBLICANS
Ted Cruz, Longtime Foe Of NASA And Science, Will Oversee NASA And Science In New Congress Remember when Cruz shutdown trhe government? Clinical trials were suspended at the National Institute of Health.[...]
November 22nd, 2014 - 12:48 pm § in Misc.
FAUX SCIENCE: The Flat Earth Society Lives ON
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November 10th, 2014 - 11:11 pm § in Uncategorized
THE Ave Challenge: What is wrong with this picture
COMMENTS WELCOME[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 4:58 pm § in Hypocrisy
Gupta Wants Med Pot Legal
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, says that marijuana medicine should be freely prescribed and people should be allowed to apply for a card at NuggMD if they wish to. CNN’s chief medical correspondent called for full-scale federal legalization of medical marijuana in n[...]
Right’s Crusade Against Science
Subject: Funding for the National Science Foundation For those of you concerned about NSF funding for anthropological research, I want to bring to your attention a legislative proposal currently making its way through the US Congress that would, if enacted, have serious consequences for anthropolo[...]
February 12th, 2014 - 4:52 am § in Schools & Colleges
Dumbing Down Math .. a Step Toward Abortion?
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February 8th, 2014 - 2:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
US Science Sinks, End of an era.
All of my life, the promise of US, my country, as the home of science, has been true .. not so much anymore. Chris Spaeth, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, having seen the federal budget that came out of the joint Appropriations Committee, is l[...]
January 6th, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
The GMO Hysteria
The NY Times has an excellent piece about the passing of a GMO ban in Hawaii The sad truth about the debate over GMO is that the opponents, largely from the left, are so illiterate about science that they have as their partners the radical right . . One amazing example showed up last week [&hell[...]
November 25th, 2013 - 8:24 pm § in Uncategorized
The FDA and BAD Science
Not All Bad Science Comes From The Right According to the Associated Press the Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits because the company has “failed to show that the technology is backed by science.” This is nonsense and a b[...]