Bias in scientists
Writing in the Times, Cordelia Fine justifies confirmation bias as a tool that facilitates discovery: Scientists are not immune. In another experiment, psycholo...
Month: July 2011
Emotional, intelligent discourse
My friend I-Chant had a sharp comment on my recent post on hypocrisy (emphasis added): I think the main problem is that there is an assumption that humans have ...
America’s vanishing science jobs
Josh Bloom in the New York Post reports on the difficult job market facing chemistry PhDs: After earning my PhD, in chemistry, I worked in drug-discovery resear...