Do these claims look defamatory to you?
You may remember my post from last week involving a case where a postdoc sued her former boss for defamation when he retracted a couple of papers they coauthored together. After that post went up, a...
View ArticleLegal and scientific burdens of proof, and scientific discourse as public...
As promised, I’ve been thinking about the details of Chandok v. Klessig. To recap, we have a case where a postdoc (Meena Chandok) generated some exciting scientific findings. She and her supervisor...
View Article#scio10 aftermath: my tweets from “Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of...
Session description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids – Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world....
View Article#scio10 aftermath: some thoughts on “Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age...
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session’s wiki page.) The panelists made a point of stepping away from...
View ArticleAsk Dr. Free-Ride: The university and the pirate.
Recently in my inbox, I found a request for advice unlike any I’d received before. Given the detail in the request, I don’t trust myself to paraphrase it. As you’ll see, I’ve redacted the names of the...
View ArticleIn the wake of ClimateGate: findings of the misconduct inquiry against...
Remember “ClimateGate”, that well-publicized storm of controversy that erupted when numerous email messages from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) webserver at the University of East Anglia were stolen...
View ArticleClimateGate, the Michael Mann inquiry, and accepted scientific practices.
In my earlier post about the findings of the Penn State inquiry committee looking into allegations of research misconduct against Michael Mann, I mentioned that the one allegation that was found to...
View ArticleActivities compatible with one’s academic job.
I really don’t know what to say about this news item, except that it had better mean that the California State University presumptively* views blogging on one’s own time and bandwidth as fully...
View ArticleShrinking budgets + skyrocketing subscription fees = UC boycott of NPG.
Economic recovery has not yet made its presence felt at public universities in California. (Indeed, at least in the California State University system, all things budgetary are going to be...
View ArticleAm I asking too little of the First Amendment?
I noticed a short item today at Inside Higher Education about Mike Adams, an associate professor of of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington , who is suing the university...
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