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Science Blender | Science Gone Wrong- Sexuality Swinging Votes? Student Essay from the HON 389 Science Blender Course

October 29, 2015 by Anne Roffler | Student Author

Throughout the year, we will be publishing essays from Professor Andrew Lyon‘s Honors 389 course “The Science Blender” . For the first paper this term, students were asked to investigate the idea of  “science gone wrong”.  Below is one student’s essay  on the topic. It is all too easy to blindly trust scientific research, particularly when it is published in

Science Blender | Science Gone Wrong- Faking a Cure for HIV Student Essay from the HON 389 Science Blender Course

October 22, 2015 by Thang Nguyen | Student Author

Throughout the year, we will be publishing essays from Professor Andrew Lyon‘s Honors 389 course “The Science Blender” . For the first paper this term, students were asked to investigate the idea of  “science gone wrong”.  Below is one student’s essay on the topic. Science in the modern era has unveiled answers to many obscure problems of humankind. Frequently, news about a

Dean’s Diversion: Communicating Science

August 9, 2015 by | Dean

Science communication is something we do a great deal of here in Schmid College.  Whenever we publish a blog post, help write a press release, or give a public lecture, I am reminded of an excellent PNAS paper entitled “Bringing values and deliberation to science communication” by Thomas Dietz from Michigan State. The basic premise

Dean’s Diversion: The Importance of Being Self-Critical

July 12, 2015 by | Dean

As scientists and humans, we are all going to make errors in our work – hopefully those errors arise from honest mistakes and not bias. In experimental science, we are accustomed to performing research using the principles of the scientific method. We form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, collect data, analyze and interpret the data,

Dean’s Diversion: Avoiding Pathological Science

June 28, 2015 by | Dean

A particularly good read (whether you are a scientist or not) is Irving Langmuir’s classic Pathological Science lecture from 1953 (download the PDF).  For most physical scientists, I imagine that the talk is well known.  There are extensive websites on the subject, as well as the obligatory Wikipedia page, so there is no need to

Dean’s Diversion: Summer Reading List

June 14, 2015 by | Dean

Towards the end of this past spring semester, I walked into my office to find the dreaded red “you have voice mail” light blazing on my phone.  As I listened to the message, I was happy to hear the voice of President Doti, who is known to use the medium to broadcast his musings to

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