This is almost a shaggy dog story. Did you here the one about fat guy who though Diet Coke dissolved cholesterol??? from CBS News: That’s what the experts are saying in light of new research that raises concern about diet soda. It’s not proof of harm, but it suggests that people who dr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Research Ethics and Hype’
October 3rd, 2011 - 8:37 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Western Governors: a professor’s opinion
"Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path To College Degree." Guest blogger Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University and author of the book "Creating a Nation of Joiners" (2008). During the last legislative session in Washington state, faculty[...]
September 21st, 2011 - 7:58 am § in Science
Scientific Hype: “Epi” Genetics
The epigenetics miracle? from Pharyngula Jerry Coyne is mildly incensed — once again, there’s a lot of recent hype about epigenetics, and he doesn’t believe it’s at all revolutionary. Well, I’ve written about epigenetics before, I think it’s an extremely important s[...]
September 15th, 2011 - 1:23 am § in Uncategorized
Mistakes Scientists Make
To Err is Human by Sarah Green, The Scientist Researchers bring their own values and passions to the lab bench. I was delighted to see a couple recent F1000 evaluations that strayed from traditional peer-reviewed literature. F1000 Members Frank Harrell, a biostatistician at Vanderbilt Medical School[...]
June 11th, 2011 - 6:12 am § in Schools & Colleges
Seven Breakthrough Solutions for Higher Ed in Texas
from Huff Post AUSTIN, Texas — When barbecue research is second-guessed in Texas, the turmoil in higher education must be getting serious. Responding to soaring tuitions and sagging graduation rates, a conservative policy foundation and Republican Gov. Rick Perry have stirred a tempest on Texa[...]
June 8th, 2011 - 6:42 am § in Schools & Colleges
Wellcome Fund Focuses on the best, the brightest, the Britishest and the most Oxbridgish with a touch of London added.
from Times Higher Education by Paul Jump excerpted In an interview with Times Higher Education to coincide with this week’s announcement of the first beneficiaries of the £56 million programme, Sir Mark said that the trust had concluded that the way to enable the best science was “to su[...]
May 27th, 2011 - 7:17 am § in Misc.
Scientific Hype
from Elizabeth Armsstrong Moore at CNET Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Nikalson is testing bioengineered human veins that could benefit some 500,000 patients a year who need to undergo vascular s[...]
May 9th, 2011 - 7:34 pm § in Uncategorized
Scientist Forced to Resign for Mentioning Ejaculate
based on material Michael Smerconish at the Huff Post, including parts by Steven M. Platek, Rebecca L. Burch, and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr.. Lazar Greenfield, was the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons, the inventor of the Greenfield Filter, professor emeritus of surgery at the Univer[...]
Open Season on Politicians Who Plagiarize
Guttenberg has since lost his Ph.D. and completely withdrawn from public life. from Der Spiegel by Oliver Trenkamp It started with Germany’s defense minister. But once Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg lost his job, many of the researchers who uncovered his plagiarized dissertation have moved on to n[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:54 am § in Environment, Religion
Frank Lutz: How to Keep NPR Funded!
from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]