Antisocial Science: Some Liberal Academics Don't Want Conservatives in Their Herds
A third would choose hiring a liberal candidate over a conservative, given equal qualifications.
Research
Is Access to Government-Funded Research a Right?
When the government funds academic research but publishers pay for editing and peer review, who gets to call the shots?
Do Organic Consumers Shop Exclusively at the Jerk Store?
A new study examines the connection between organic food marketing and anti-social behavior.
Can Most Cancer Research Be Trusted?
Addressing the problem of "academic risk" in biomedical research
Among the Biotech Conventioneers
A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.
Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Kill More People Than It Helps?
Consumers, not bureaucrats, should make healthcare decisions.
From Yuck to Yippee!
What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
Burning Money to Turn Coal into Gas
In which Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey confesses to his role as a petty Igor to Jimmy Carter's energy-regulating Dr. Frankenstein.
