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Matters of Life and Death at San Jose State University
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: All kinds of trouble: more on the Korean stem cell saga
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Wednesday, December 14, 2005. All kinds of trouble: more on the Korean stem cell saga. Gerald Schatten and Seoul National University are in the news again today. (Here's what Joe Palca had to say about it on Morning Edition. This morning.) The new development: apparently Schatten has asked Science. Do you think there might be any power dynamics at play in this situation? How can you put your name on a manuscript if you're not confident that what's in it is accurate?
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Aw Mom, scientific misconduct
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Sunday, October 30, 2005. Aw Mom, scientific misconduct again. Can you believe there's another story in the news about a scientist caught fabricating and falsifying data? Also, the sky is blue. For the Boston Globe. Why does this kind of thing keep happening? Maybe if we knew, we could put a stop to it. In the meantime, here are my thoughts about the various players in this affair. (All quotes are from the above-linked Boston Globe. Article unless noted otherwise.).
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Crackpottery, etiquette, and ethical duties.
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Saturday, August 27, 2005. Crackpottery, etiquette, and ethical duties. There's scientific knowledge. There are the dedicated scientists who make it, whether slaving in laboratories or in the fields, fretting over data analysis, refereeing each other's manuscripts or second guessing themselves. And, well, there are some crackpots. Doctor Hardass, who has been asking tough questions of presenters all day, tentatively asks a question about the mathematics of this crackpot ...
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Communicating science to the public? More like an advertising blitz.
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Wednesday, May 11, 2005. Communicating science to the public? More like an advertising blitz. Sad to say, I'm not being metaphorical. I nearly drove off the road this morning listening to this story. About the ways ads (especially for Hollywood movies) are permeating more bits of our lives. This general thesis does not surprise me in the least. (For the record, the studio marketing folks are upfront that this is what they're doing. Is in climate science. In the story, Th...
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Lies that "don't matter"? (Van Parijs follow-up)
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Monday, October 31, 2005. Lies that "don't matter"? The conduct of fired MIT biology professor Luk Van Parijs, as reconstructed in the investigation of his work of the last eight years or so, gets curiouser and curiouser. From the October 29th Boston Globe. A follow-up story by Bombardieri and Cook. In one case, the data in question would not have affected the conclusion, said Dr. Abul Abbas, who directed the Brigham laboratory where Van Parijs worked and was the sen...
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Talking the talk vs. walking the walk (plagiarism update)
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Monday, November 14, 2005. Talking the talk vs. walking the walk (plagiarism update). Earlier, I wrote about plagiarism in the engineering school at Ohio University. A masters graduate, Thomas Matrka, raised concerns about widespread instances of plagiarism in masters theses, while the administration . well, didn't seem to view it as such a big problem as Mr. Matrka did. Well, Mr. Matrka commented on my earlier post. I'm reproducing his comment, in its entirety, here:.
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Professional Duties, Personal Convictions.
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Monday, December 05, 2005. Professional Duties, Personal Convictions. The stereotype is that the scientist values knowledge above all else. Despite the impression people get that research scientists are emotionally detached when it comes to their lab animals - viewing them as a means to obtain more information, and thus of merely instrumental value - I don't know of a scientist who does or has worked with animals in research who hasn't had to do a gut-check. But I did ph...
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Face transplants
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Monday, March 14, 2005. I heard a story on the radio the other day about new research in face transplantation. Yes, transplanting a whole face. The option that's being explored experimentally is transplanting entire faces (skin plus underlying tissue) from cadavers. Of course, doing this requires the removal of the skin and underlying tissue of the face recipient, leaving the facial muscles. A second face available to transplant (and a third, and a fourth)? How will the ...
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Adventures in Ethics and Science: Who's in the club, and why does it matter?
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Adventures in Ethics and Science. Friday, April 15, 2005. Who's in the club, and why does it matter? For some reason, I was resisting taking the issue up in this weblog, but the furniture I keep bumping into in the blogosphere makes me think I really ought to take it up. How much does it matter that certain groups (like women) are under-represented in the tribe of science? I'm not, at the moment, taking up the causes. Nor am I looking for any piss-poor "Barry Winters". Links to an article. Good reasons f...
