We live in an ever increasing plasticized world. There are many good things about plastic, but then there are also some very bad things such as the giant whirpools of plastic fragments out in the oceans that are larger than Texas and also some of the chemicals in plastics are dangerous. One particular chemical villain …
FDA finally bans poison and carcinogen BPA from baby products Read More »
It’s been a big couple months of headlines in the news for prostate cancer. I’m a prostate cancer survivor and cancer biologist so I spend probably more than my share of time thinking about prostate cancer and from a number of angles. A few days ago I got a test result suggesting I’m still in long-term …
Updated: Do Vulcans Get Prostate Cancer and get surgery for it? Read More »
Translated by Harsh Sharma (many thanks!)
A major scandal has erupted further regarding FDA monitoring of its scientists’ emails as reported by the NY Times. The FDA spied on the emails of its own scientists and other scientists. Some of the emails also involved correspondence with Congress and even the White House. Regardless of one’s position on what the FDA did, …
Do you feel frustrated with the current peer review system in science? I have an idea that might help and it involves the revolutionary idea of reviewer accountability. In other words, authors and grant writers in essence review their reviewers. I’ve made this all the easier for you with templates that you can simply and …
Transformative idea for peer review: reviewing & grading the reviewers Read More »
A stodgy old scientist once said to me that he was skeptical of scientific social media with its “twitting and the blobs” …..uh, you mean blogs? But maybe he wasn’t so off track in what he said, talking about a blog as “The blob”, reflecting his thinking of blogs as akin to monsters. Is blogging …
The Blob versus the blog: arguing how social media is changing science Read More »
I wish I had a T-shirt like the one at right below that I made up. I already hate the Higgs Boson and I’m not even sure it exists. Neither are the scientists who today reported they might have discovered it to much fanfare. Today’s hysteria and hype is based on the reported, kinda maybe sort of …
Higgs hysteria & faster-than-light debacle reveal today’s voodoo Physics Read More »
Hackers are trying to take over this blog, probably even as you read this post. I’ve heard about people trying to take over websites, but I wasn’t aware of the magnitude of the problem until I installed a little widget on my blog to measure such activities. After about a week of the widget monitoring …
Freaking hackers trying to take over my blog: the startling data Read More »
Scientists are sinners? Yep. Here’s our series of articles on the seven deadline sins of science (note so far only the first 5 sins have been covered). Failure to Cite Paper or grant killing Need for Speed Hype Snobbery To be announced To be announced
I’m discussing the seamier side of science in a seven part series on what I call scientific sinning or the “seven sins of scientists”. The first four pieces in this series really stoked a great deal of interest and debate, covering Failure to Cite, Paper or grant killing, Need for Speed, and hype. Today in the fifth installment …