David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Research Ethics and Hype’
April 1st, 2011 - 12:52 pm § in Religion
Feynman Besmirched, Scientific Community Bemused
Craig Venter misquotes Feynman in DNA Craig Venter Image: Wikipedia, PLoS Having singlehandedly sequenced the human genome, in a heric effort to prove the superiority of the capitalist system, Craig ventor has now taken the next step on the road pioneered by the Deity, Venter has created life itself[...]
Radical Right Truths: Climategate
Many have asked what I fear is the worst issue confronting these United States; after reflection and tought, I have concluded a rather unique, but I believe ultimately correct, answer: The politicization of science. Yes, science has become a political minefield, and the results are the catastrop[...]
Lysenko: The Rad Right Charges Academe with Lysenko-ism.
Ed. A couple of weeks ago, The AVE published a story from OSU claiming that the University was silencing students because of the scientific claims of their father, a climate change denialist. The image from the right is of an academic establishment mimicking the Roman Church’s persecution [...]
March 9th, 2011 - 11:25 am § in Uncategorized
How to waste MORE time in Medical School.
from Huff Post: Med students are taught about everything from pathology to microbiology, but are they asked to learn enough about public health policy? Ed. Why should we take more time out of med school for more fluff? Med students are adults. Their education in social issues should have happe[...]
Supreme Court: Rights of Stanford vs. Roche to Intellectual Property
Ed: The title above is misleading. As previously discussed on The Ave, Stanford vs. Roche Molecular has evolved into a battle over the patents rights of faculty members. The case esp. important at the UW because, unlike Stanford faculty we do not sign a contract. Instead our working agreem[...]
February 25th, 2011 - 9:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Who OWNS what UW faculty create?
All faculty need to understand that we DO have a contract and that contract, the Faculty Code, effects a lot more than “just” free speech or due process. The Code effects YOUR rights to work you produce, even if that work is on “your own time.” Stanford University has asked[...]
February 24th, 2011 - 8:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
UPDATE:What Happened to the Boycott of NATURE?
Last August, the University of California and Nature Publishing Group, announced “an agreement to work together to address the current licensing challenges as well as the larger issues of sustainability in the scholarly communication process.” I can find nothing on the web about[...]
The Lab: A Video on Scientific Misconduct
Ed. The issue of scientific misconduct is a hot one at the UW. The President and Provost fired Professor Andrew Aprikyan despite the universal finding by a Senate panel that the UW had not followed due process. In my opinion, the UW has done a poor job. A lack of due process means that we [&[...]