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| Science, red in tooth and claw |
| I've been contemplating the current competitive state of science here before. The gist of it was that science may be suffering from too much competition, leading to an increasing incidence of misconduct, such as falsifyi...[more] |
| open access sabotage tenure credibility politics fraud misconduct stress |
| Posted on Thursday 30 September 2010 - 17:10:18 |
| The fruit fly swatting politicians are back! |
| This absolutely takes the cake as one of the most stupid remarks I've ever heard a top politician utter. I'm sure everybody remembers the fruit fly bruhaha of Sarah Palin from last October. And what do I read on ...[more] |
| Palin McCain fruitflies Drosophila politics |
| Posted on Friday 09 January 2009 - 18:37:04 |
| Put all scientists in jail! |
| They're after your head - if you're a scientist that is. And since you're reading this blog, you probably are. Let's play a game. I'll quote from a document and you guess from which organisation the person came who wrote...[more] |
| Discovery Institute creationism intelligent design science politics anti-science |
| Posted on Monday 30 November 2009 - 16:44:44 |
| The unpersuadables: the delusional is no longer marginal |
| In recent weeks, or so it seems, there has been an accumulation of some very disturbing trends in the media. Unaware of how they all are connected, I wrote separate posts on the different occasions when the events trigge...[more] |
| delusion web 2.0 middle ages religion politics unpersuadables |
| Posted on Tuesday 09 March 2010 - 15:28:21 |
| Now it's personal: Sarah Palin attacks my work |
| Now with everybody and their grandmothers already blogging about the US presidential campaigns and this being a largely scientific blog based in Europe, it was easy to ignore US politics. It was easy despite having lived...[more] |
| Palin Drosophila research science politics |
| Posted on Saturday 25 October 2008 - 12:26:09 |
| Scientists, the White House seeks your opinion on Open Access |
| Now, it's impossible to know if the following two events are related, but it sure is some strange coincidence. The internet right now is abuzz with talks about a new piece of legislation being introduced in the US, appar...[more] |
| Open Access OSTP RFI publishing policy politics |
| Posted on Friday 06 January 2012 - 17:29:40 |
| Research is never simply an earmark |
| Now that we all know that the specific research Sarah Palin was referring to was about a different genus of Dipterans, Tephritidae, and not Drosophila. Apparently, these fruit flies are an important pest threatening Cali...[more] |
| fruit flies Drosophila Palin research science politics earmarks pork barrel |
| Posted on Monday 27 October 2008 - 09:16:10 |
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