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Posts Tagged ‘Research Ethics and Hype’

October 11th, 2011 - 3:26 am § in Uncategorized

Silly Science Paid for by NIH

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[...]

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[...]

May 4th, 2011 - 2:45 pm § in Hypocrisy, Misc.

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[...]