Scientific conduct: contrasts on a gray scale

Desirable scientific conduct.

M any scientists are aware of the subtle influences on their own scientific conduct, but many others are not. Sydney Brenner, the joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, delightfully described a slide in which data points were scattered very close to a straight line— but a large mysterious black object lay in one corner. By degrees, the onlooker realizes that the object...

Jim Gray on eScience: a transformed scientific method

Jeremy Gray. Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography

Interlinking Scientific Data on a Global Scale

A recurrent problem with the way research data is stored, processed, and accessed is that scientific work environments, as well as research data infrastructures, remain isolated solutions that focus on data from specific disciplines or data produced within specific geographic regions, such as the European Union or the United States. Moreover, scientific work environments and research data infra...

Ethics : responsible scientific conduct 1 ’ 2

Nutrition researchers and practitioners may wonder what ethics has to do with their professional activities and investigations. Given widely held impressions about ethics, such questioning, not to speak of outright skepticism, is understandable. Ethics committees in the US Congress virtually identify ethics with the policing and censorship ofcongressional representatives for breaking house rule...