The author argues that John D. Graham, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, holds strong anti-environmental biases and has perpetuated and encouraged a misrepresentation of his own research, which has largely influenced health, safety, and environmental regulation.

This case raises ethical issues involving conflicts of interest arising from industrial funding of academic research; ethical responsibilities of laboratories to funding agencies; ethical responsibilities in the management of a research lab; ethical considerations in appropriate research design; communication in a research group; communication between advisor and graduate student; responsibilit...

Internet scamming strategies associated with West Africa typically involve the creation and deployment of actional narratives depicting political turmoil, corruption, violence, poverty, and personal tragedy set in a variety of African nations. This article examines Internet scammers’ complicity in promoting these creatively dramatic, yet stereotyped, representations of Africa and Africans. Thei...

I conducted an exploratory principal components analysis of 15 scales that evaluate a variety of possible self-serving biases using assessment data from 101 general forensic clients. Three distinct factors emerged, representing exaggeration of psychiatric symptoms versus exaggeration of personal adjustment, exaggeration of virtue, and exaggeration of physical health difficulties. Confirmatory f...

This letter concerns an article recently published in ‘Current Opinion in Biotechnology by Baroukh et al. [1]’. The issue we wish to bring to light is the authors’ claim that dynamic metabolic models including Hybrid Cybernetic Model (HCM) [2,3] and Lumped HCM (L-HCM) [4,5] are based on the balanced growth hypothesis so that they are unable to simulate the accumulation of intracellular metaboli...