Beyond funding, conflicts of interest in scientific communication can occur in quite ordinary situations, such as when the author of a manuscript proposes that a friend revise the text or when the editor of a journal feels a particular inclination towards the articles of colleagues. Virginia Barbour is chief editor of PLoS Medicine, the Public…
2009
Increasing numbers of citizens take Prozac to brighten their mood, or Provigil to increase their concentration. Is it okay to use them? What risks are involved? Do we have the right to provide these assumed benefits to our children? Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of…
2009
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2008
How scientific results should be communicated orally and in writing. This is the double objective of the freely chosen subject imparted during the last two weeks of September 2008 at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University, in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation. The originality of this teaching proposal, unprecedented in…
2008
