Send in the clones
I didn't comment on the Neandertal cloning kerfuffle this week. Now that it's sort of died down, I'll provide a link to a Knight Science Journalism Tracker story by Faye Flam that gives some context...
View ArticlePrivacy of genetic research participants
Misha Angrist, writing in Nature News comments ("Genetic privacy needs a more nuanced approach") on the recent study that demonstrated the possibility of finding the true identities of research...
View ArticleMore on the reclamation proclamation
Michael E. Smith comments on the Chagnon/Sahlins flap from the perspective of archaeology: "Chagnon, Sahlins, and science":What about archaeology? Are we exempt from this kind of serious but silly...
View ArticleIRB review
Zachary Schrag points to a report by the American Association of University Professors , and gives a quoted excerpt that deserves to be forwarded on: "AAUP Publishes Final Report, Regulation of...
View ArticleThe Neandertal treatment
Virginia Hughes, in National Geographic News, takes on the subject of whether we will someday clone Neandertals: "Return of the Neanderthals". She gets into the technical issues a bit and discusses...
View ArticleThe cost of plagiarism at NSF
I pass this along from ScienceInsider, really too irritated for clever comment: "NSF Audit of Successful Proposals Finds Numerous Cases of Alleged Plagiarism".The National Science Foundation (NSF) is...
View ArticleQuote: Morgan and Reynolds on ethics of plagiarism
Peter Morgan and Glenn Reynolds, from their book The Appearance of Impropriety: How the Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business, and Society (available online "Chapter Five: A Plague...
View ArticleThe problem of Lance retraction
Retraction Watch comments on a provocative case: Should a scientific paper that measured Lance Armstrong's exercise physiology during his Tour de France days now be retracted in light of revelations...
View ArticleMitochondria from another mother
This seems a newsworthy story by Ian Sample at the Guardian: "Britain ponders 'three-person embryos' to combat genetic diseases". If ministers and MPs give the procedures the green light, Britain would...
View ArticleGoodall plagiarism case
I'm back home now from a week on family vacation, catching up on news from the last few days. I have been dismayed to read about Jane Goodall's book debacle. She has been accused of plagiarism,...
View ArticlePrivacy, family history, and genomes
Razib Khan comments on the ethics of making your genome public without the consent of your family: "On genetic privacy". For example, if you have one of the high penetrance BRCA mutations, you may not...
View ArticleAAPA hears about ongoing abuse of students at field sites
I'm sitting in a packed room this morning at the meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, in a session on ethics in the field. The most important presentation in the session...
View ArticleAAA statement on sexual harassment in field projects
Following up on Saturday's post, "AAPA hears about ongoing abuse of students at field sites", the American Anthropological Association has issued a statement: "Zero tolerance for sexual harassment"....
View ArticleThe DNA portrait artist
Twitter gets results! A group of geneticists (honestly, including me) were kvetching on Twitter about this NPR story: "Litterbugs Beware: Turning Found DNA Into Portraits". The story profiles an...
View Article"Open access spam" and how journals sell scientific reputation
John Bohannon is a reporter for science magazine, who has been engaged in an investigative report for the last year about "open access" journals: "Who's afraid of peer review?". Bohannon's project was...
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