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Jumping on the Conflict of Interest Bandwagon
After the Cleveland Clinic announced last week that it would disclose all of its physician's financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, other hospitals are following suit as not to be left behind on the ethics bandwagon. Just 2 days after the Clinic's announcement, Penn Medicine has announced that they too will... (read the rest)
Can Plato pay the bills?
According to an article earlier this week in NYT, philosophy has become a hot major on college campuses: Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old discipline... (read the rest)
The debate over academic doping
In Sunday's NYT, Benedict Carey looks at the discussion that has followed that Nature commentary about professors who use cognitive enhancers. Here's a snip: In his book “Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution,” Francis Fukuyama raises the broader issue of performance enhancement: “The original purpose of medicine is... (read the rest)
Following up: academic fraud, sitting on research, wrecked football players
Here are a few updates and extensions to earlier posts on blog.bioethics.net: Academic journal deja vu A few weeks back two researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center reported in Nature that they had found evidence of thousands of duplicated and plagiarized articles in biomedical journals. The researchers... (read the rest)
Academic journal deja vu
Mounir Errami and Harold Garner -- both of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center -- report in a Nature commentary this week that duplication and plagiarism appear to be on the rise in biomedical academic publishing. After using a text analyzer on a sample of Medline abstracts, they found... (read the rest)
Social science at war
The New York Times has an interesting story today about the military's use of anthropoligists and other social scientists in its counter-insurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army officers tell the Times that the scientists have been a great aid in their efforts to understand local populations and dynamics. But... (read the rest)
Glenn McGee in The Scientist: Me First!
Glenn's column for September proposes two rules for fixing the system of academic authorship: This spring, The Scientist received a letter signed by Fertility and Sterility editor Alan DeCherney, asking to retract comments he made three months earlier, in which he accused authors of an F&S paper of plagiarism. The... (read the rest)
the fog of academic war
In academic feuds, as in war, there is no telling how far people will go once the shooting starts. - Benedict Carey, NYTimes What constitutes research? It's a question that's been idly lurking in the back of my mind since I first picked up and read Malcolm Gladwell's book The... (read the rest)
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