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The sociology of tobacco, or The tobacco of sociology
From Aaron Swartz, a link stating that famous sociologist Peter L. Berger was a big-time consultant for the Tobacco Insitute: Peter L. Berger is an academic social philosopher and sociologist who served as a consultant to the tobacco industry starting...
Ethical and data-integrity problems in Iraq mortality study?
Michael Spagat has written this paper criticizing the study of Iraq mortality by Burnham, Lafta, Doocy, and Roberts: I [Spagat] consider the second Lancet survey of mortality in Iraq published in 2006. I give evidence of ethical violations against the...
This is (apparently) not a hoax: The Arete Institute at the University of Chicago wants to give you money for highly original, methodologically rigorous projects on the nature and benefits of Wisdom
I just got this letter in the email. Oddly enough, it appears to be serious: The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $2 million research program on the nature and benefits of Wisdom....
More taboo research, also a statistical point about apparent bimodality
Seth points to another example here on taboo research (for background on taboo research, see here and here). Alice Dreger writes:...
What is a taboo question?
This is some mix of political science and sociology, I'm not quite sure which... From Greg Mankiw I saw this newspaper article by Steven Pinker, "In defense of dangerous ideas: In every age, taboo questions raise our blood pressure and...
Unethical ethicists
Suresh sent along this item from Eric Schwitzgebel: Ethics books are more likely to be stolen than non-ethics books in philosophy (looking at a large sample of recent ethics and non-ethics books from leading academic libraries). Missing books as a...
Politically committed research
I was talking with Seth about his and my visits to the economics department at George Mason University. One thing that struck me about the people I met there was that their research was strongly aligned with their political convictions...
Interesting bioethics blog
Following the link from Jon Baron's site, I found this interesting blog from the American Journal of Bioethics....
Statistics and ethics: human volunteers edition
Charles Star considers one of the fine points in the definition of "volunteer."...
Scientists behaving badly? Maybe, but maybe not as often as reported
In a comment here, Martin Termouth cited this report from Nature, "One in three scientists confesses to having sinned." But what are these sins? Here's the relevant table: This looks pretty bad, until you realize that the rarest behaviors, which...
The ethics of consulting for the tobacco industry
Don Rubin published an article in 2002 on "The ethics of consulting for the tobacco industry." Here's the article, and here's the abstract: This article describes how and why I [Rubin] became involved in consulting for the tobacco industry. I...
Chad on ethics
Chad Heilig is a statistics Ph.D. graduate of Berkeley who has moved from theoretical statistics to work at the CDC. He recently wrote a paper on ethics in statistics that will appear in Clinical Trials. The paper is interesting to...
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