Berkeley accused of biotech bias as ecologist is denied tenure

Biology Professor to Leave Wake Forest Mter Being Denied Tenure

Apparently caught in the midst of Wake Forest's growing pains, William Thomas, assistant professor of biology, has been denied tenure for a university professorship. He is preparing to find a job at another university. ''l'mobviouslydisappointed;lliketheschool. I think I've done a good job doing important things," Thomas Said. ''This issue falls in the center of a large issue facing universitie...

Treatment delayed is treatment denied.

In 1977, Reimer and coworkers published in this journal the results of an experiment that established the basis of reperfusion therapy for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).1 These investigators identified a relationship between the duration of acute coronary occlusion and the magnitude of subsequent myocardial necrosis. In other words, the extent of infarct size that res...

Sex bias in graduate admissions: data from berkeley.

Examination of aggregate data on graduate admissions to the University of California, Berkeley, for fall 1973 shows a clear but misleading pattern of bias against female applicants. Examination of the disaggregated data reveals few decision-making units that show statistically significant departures from expected frequencies of female admissions, and about as many units appear to favor women as...

Cholesterol; is accused for the atherosclerosis proximal to myocardial bridging?

The Post-ecologist Condition: Irony as Symptom and Cure

Resources for an authentic response to the ‘post-ecologist condition’ as described by Ingolfur Blühdorn can be found in a cultural modernism which emphasises the contradictory nature of the human condition and whose master trope is irony. The concept of irony can help us both diagnose and respond to the crisis in public meaning which helps sustain unsustainable behaviour. Forms of dispositional...