Palestinian scientists are already restricted

The solutions are already there.

I would like to offer my congratulations to Juli Coffin for her thoughtful, wise and well-written letter on the recent actions by the Commonwealth Government in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australia. As a researcher who has had the privilege of being able to listen to and document insights from our Aboriginal peoples and the many health professionals who provide c...

Are Scientists Really Publishing More?

2 [email protected] Université de Montréal, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, C.P. 6128, Succ. CentreVille, H3C 3J7 Montreal, Qc. (Canada) Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), CP 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, H3C 3P8 Montreal, Qc. (...

Have Scientists Already Been Able to Surpass the Capabilities of Evolution?

Over two millennia ago Socrates was pondering whether our Universe and all things in it are governed by randomness or by a regulating intelligence. This philosophical question has been alive till the present day, since the proponents of neither side have been able to convince their opponents. Scientists seldom express or recognize clearly their philosophical presuppositions and many think that ...

How free are Canada's unmuzzled scientists?

Are scientists a workforce ? – Or , how

S ome time ago, I was reading Science’s Careers and cringed at the title “Can NIH renovate the biomedical workforce?”. The problem was the word “workforce”, since its Russian equivalent was used by the Communist Party leadership to describe other citizens of the Soviet Union— where I grew up—whom they viewed as mere cogs in a machine at the Party’s disposal. Hoping that my past confused me into...