Archive for April, 2004

Technology and place

In the future that was supposed to unfold, we’d stay in our offices, and the world would come to us. Instead, we still travel, and we carry our offices with us.

Interesting piece by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang at the Red Herring blog. (Scroll to the April 20 entry, couldn’t find a permalink.)

Scientific misconduct

A professor, earlier at Karolinska institutet, is being accused of scientific misconduct. According to Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish Research Council will launch an investigation that might take at least six months to finish.

At the moment, the Research Policy Institute is planning a research project on scientific misconduct. In particular, we are interested in investigating the grey zones where bias and other systemic factors enter into the research process, rather than outright fraud and the ethics of the individual scientist.