There are some real reasons that health care in America costs more than anywhere else. One difficult part of this is that we Americans have been subsidizing the entire world because our market model is unique. The American drug market is open to free competition with little in the way of price c[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Research Ethics and Hype’
February 17th, 2011 - 1:39 pm § in Misc.
Biotech and Madoff:the decline and fall of American Pharma.
January 25th, 2011 - 11:20 pm § in America
Paul Nurse on Climategate and Scientists Speaking Out
from The Independent Sir Paul Nurse, t Nobelist and president of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of sciences, urged scientists to speak out against the media hype. … “This is far too important to be left to the polemicists and the commentators in the media. Scienti[...]
January 25th, 2011 - 3:17 am § in Uncategorized
When Ambition Collides With Intellectual Honesty
It’s okay to lie through your teeth when you’re running for public office, but not when you’re publishing historical research. Funny how that works, isn’t it? Maybe we should require politicians to be truthful and let academics get away with whoppers because nobody reads thei[...]
Senate Chair: Aprikyan was wronged.
Originally posted 17 Jan. Updated Jan 24 because of a comment that may interest others. Please read comments. Ed Note: This is copied from the UW Senate Blog. Unfortunately, and I suspect illegally, that blog is protected from public view. UW staff, however can access the blog directly[...]