The SciencesOctober 19, 2011
Is being a good scientist a matter of what you do or of what you feel in your heart?
Stories by Janet D. Stemwedel
Janet D. Stemwedel is a professor of philosophy at San José State University and an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow. Follow her on Twitter @docfreeride
The SciencesOctober 13, 2011
DonorsChoose #scibloggers4students: donate and set my blogging agenda.
The SciencesOctober 12, 2011
DonorsChoose #scibloggers4students: now occupying your social media.
The SciencesOctober 7, 2011
Ada Lovelace and the Luddites.
The SciencesOctober 4, 2011
Drawing the line between science and pseudo-science.
The SciencesOctober 2, 2011
Introducing DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2011 (with a wag of the finger for Stephen Colbert).
The SciencesSeptember 30, 2011
Evaluating scientific claims (or, do we have to take the scientist's word for it?)
The SciencesSeptember 28, 2011
What a scientist knows about science (or, the limits of expertise).
The SciencesSeptember 26, 2011
What the chlorite-iodide reaction taught me.
September 24, 2011
Trust me, I’m a scientist.
In an earlier post, I described an ideal of the tribe of science that the focus of scientific discourse should be squarely on the content — the hypotheses scientists are working with, the empirical data they have amassed, the experimental strategies they have developed for getting more information about our world — rather than on [...]
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2011
A brief rhyming interlude concerning responsible conduct of research.
The SciencesAugust 30, 2011
Scientific credibility: is it who you are, or how you do it?
The SciencesAugust 29, 2011
What about Dalibor Sames? The Bengü Sezen fraud and the responsibilities of the PI in the training of new scientists.
The SciencesAugust 9, 2011
Every diet has a body-count: in the garden with the vegetarian killing snails.
August 8, 2011
Environmental impacts of what we eat: the difficulty of apples-to-apples comparisons.
The SciencesAugust 2, 2011
Doing fun chemistry.
August 2, 2011
Building knowledge (and stuff) ethically: the principles of "Green Chemistry".
The SciencesJuly 21, 2011
Objectivity requires teamwork, but teamwork is hard.
The SciencesJuly 20, 2011
The objectivity thing (or, why science is a team sport).
July 7, 2011
Dividing cognitive labor, sharing a world: the American public and climate science.
July 5, 2011
Let’s talk about “Doing Good Science”.
Welcome to my shiny new blog at Scientific American! Here, we’ll be talking about what’s involved in doing good science — and about what ethics has to do with it.