academia

Reforms urged for drug companies...THIS IS SCARY

Merck minimized deaths that showed Vioxx didn't prevent Alzheimer's Article said Merck paid academics to take credit for research articles Journal official: "The manipulation is disgusting" Merck...

What sector?

Hey all,If you're an admin assistant, what sort of sector do you work in?I work for a cell phone retailer reviewing invoices, a/p and a/r.

Do You Think Academia is Crap?

I am in my last semester of undergraduate work and I have a 3.94 and am in the process of finishing up grad school applications which are really a pain in the butt. All these statements of purpose,...

Teaching that Contracts Should Be Broken is Rewarding

Congratulations to Andrew Samwick of Capital Gains and Games for being named Professor of the Year in New Hampshire.

Death is not an option: optimizing academic performance edition.

Let's say you're a college student. You have a class meeting today at which a short essay (about 400 words) is due. The essay counts for about 5% of your grade for the course. At that class...

Sex toys and human subjects at Duke University.

At Terra Sigillata, Abel notes that the Director of Duke University's Catholic Center is butting in to researchers' attempts to recruit participants for their research. As it happens, that research...

Dissing Free Speech

Here’s Obama’s “media diversity czar,” Mark Lloyd: It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an...

New Series on Islamist Terrorism

A new series on Islamist terrorism at Zenpundit. Charles Cameron, former Senior Analyst with The Arlington Institute and Principal Researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston...

Signs of the times.

The times in question being, in this case, the last days of October. Once upon a Tuesday morning, while I wandered, cold and yawning, Up the grimy stair steps winding skyward toward my...

'I'm not even supposed to be here today!'

Since being tenured, I've tried to shift to a pattern of only coming in to campus three days a week, working from home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and giving the earth a little break by not doing my...

Academic Freedom

There is no more unaccountable group in America today than academics. This is true even when they work for public institutions. This is clearly on display in this story about the American Association...

Borlaug Remembered

“He regarded himself as an instrument, which he used tirelessly for the benefit of others.”The world honors Borlaug: Here, then Here.

Science isn't the only academic field with an overabundance of XYs.

Via Twitter, PalMD wondered if I'd seen this brief item on the New York Times Idea of the Day blog. Writing in The Philosophers' Magazine, Brooke Lewis says tallies of full-time faculty at top...