Don't Ghettoize Innovation

Don't Ghettoize Innovation

This isn't news anymore (see here, and here), but Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science has weighed in on the out-of-whack system of incentives in the biomedical sciences: Assuming that the…
Avoiding The Easy Way In Science

Avoiding The Easy Way In Science

Our neurological structures are made mainly for survival; curiosity (a main tool for living) and its satisfaction are deeply inserted, by evolutionary genetics, into our central nervous system…
'Psychological Contagion of Myth and Suspicion'

'Psychological Contagion of Myth and Suspicion'

A perspective piece by Danielle Ofri of the NYU School of Medicine, in last week's New England Journal of Medicine (subscription required) nails the H1N1 vaccine hysteria: After repeated delays, H1N1…