A tale of two Mertons
In her famous Slagle lecture, Reilly describes the importance of criticism in professions in general and in occupational therapy in particular. She stated that "...a card-carrying critic must do more than merely engage in critical thinking. Judgments made by a critic must emerge from a discreet use of techniques which are difficult to master and dangerous to apply. Basically, the skill is dependent upon an ability to analyze, interpret and synthesize. A critic must have a sharply developed capacity to see deficiencies in data and fallacies in interpretation. The best stock in trade that any critic has is a disc...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - October 7, 2015 Category: Occupational Health Tags: philosophy policy Source Type: blogs
TWiV 353: STING and the antiviral police
On episode #353 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVniacs discuss twenty-eight years of poliovirus shedding by an immunodeficient patient, and packaging of the innate cytoplasmic signaling molecule cyclic GMP-AMP in virus particles.
You can find TWiV #353 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 6, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology agammaglobulinemia cGAMP cGAS IFN innate immunity interferon packaging poliovirus Sabin vaccine shedding STING vaccine-derived poliovirus VDPV viral virus particle Source Type: blogs
Marriage Policy Is a Mess. Here’s How to Make Sense of It.
Give Rand Paul points for trying: His opinion piece about marriage policy in the wake of Obergefell did better than many other Republicans have done. He did not call for resurrecting the dead – and politically toxic – Federal Marriage Amendment. He would appear to be actually considering the issues at stake, which is a good start.
But contrary to the promise of the headline (which he probably didn’t write anyway), the measures that Senator Paul recommends would not get government “out of the marriage business altogether.” Judging by what he actually wrote, local government would still control entry and exit from ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Jason Kuznicki Source Type: blogs
When is Research Misconduct Research Misconduct
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">Advancement of Science and John Bohannon is a scientist. It does not seem unreasonable that they should aspire to operate under practices contextual to those expected of scientists.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">I raise this point now because John Bohannon has again engaged in a <a href="/BioethicsBlog/post.cfm/peer-review-and-open-access-journals-part-2">sting operation</a>. In this op...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 15, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care Publication Ethics Research Integrity syndicated Source Type: blogs
You Ought to Have a Look: Climate Change Subtleties, Hurricanes, and Chocolate Bunnies
You Ought to Have a Look is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science posted by Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. (“Chip”) Knappenberger. While this section will feature all of the areas of interest that we are emphasizing, the prominence of the climate issue is driving a tremendous amount of web traffic. Here we post a few of the best in recent days, along with our color commentary.
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We highlight a couple of headlines this week that made us chuckle a bit, although what they portend is far from funny.
The first was from the always amusing “Energy and Environment” section of the Washington Post. Climat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 2, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick J. Michaels, Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger Source Type: blogs
