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Have you paid the rent to your university this month?
This may sound like an absurd question to you, but here in Berlin, Germany, this is actually going to be the reality, as of right now. Today, without any prior notification or information, we received a memo from the uni...[more]
absurdities   politics   Berlin   rent   
Posted on Thursday 28 October 2010 - 16:39:15

Open Science
Coturnix over at ScienceBlogs.com has an interesting blog post on Open Science, meaning that people keep their lab notebooks public. I commented on the topic:
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science   politics   science politics   open science   
Posted on Friday 04 May 2007 - 18:01:51

ERC starting grant hugely popular
Speaking of press releases about popular sites for scientists, the newly formed European Research Council (ERC) reports that its very first call for proposals has received a record number of applications. The call for th...[more]
science   politics   science politics   ERC   grants   
Posted on Friday 04 May 2007 - 17:34:33

Groundhog day: What do anti-science movements have in common?
Why do people believe weird things? Just yesterday, I was amused and confused at the same time reading the Spiegel article on more than a dozen of the more prominent prophets claiming the end of the world was nigh - who ...[more]
science   politics   ideology   anti-science   
Posted on Thursday 03 December 2009 - 11:10:56

Science is a fraud

Science is a fraud - or at least that's what the candidates running for the highest office in the last remaining superpower are saying. Pharyngula linked to this segment from the Daily Show and so did LGF. Clearly, I'm l...[more]
anti-science   politics   video   
Posted on Friday 28 October 2011 - 21:24:58

Polishing scientific results
In a follow-up to the last post on scientific misconduct, I think it is already becoming apparent that the incidence of "polishing" scientific data is on the rise. With "polishing" I refer to omission of experiments that...[more]
science   politics   science politics   misconduct   
Posted on Monday 29 January 2007 - 14:55:11

Scientific misconduct
Both The Scientist and Nature feature scientific misconduct prominently in their current issues:
A Fluctuating Reality (The Scientist)
Breeding Cheats (Nature - see also related articles)
An earlier Wired article also cover...[more]
science   politics   science politics   misconduct   
Posted on Thursday 18 January 2007 - 17:20:07

Newsweek article: science has little impact
Hundreds of years of scientific insight have little effect on the worldview of millions of US citizens. A large fraction of US-Americans believe the earth was created after the Sumerians invented glue or that Noah's Ark ...[more]
science   politics   religion   
Posted on Friday 10 November 2006 - 10:51:41

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science   politics   science politics   editors   science publishing   
Posted on Thursday 01 January 1970 - 01:00:00

In which comments validate a Nature editorial
In the most recent issue of Nature, the editorial entitled ""Science scorned claims that "The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in the United States is the last thing the country needs in a time of economic ch...[more]
Nature   politics   science   
Posted on Thursday 09 September 2010 - 15:48:44

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