beggars and the scienligion model for business

#Bordeaux #RdP_Bx Cherche volontaires sains pour tests neurophychologiques

NB pas de piqures ! C’est juste un entretient avec une neuropsychologue et une série de tests sur ordi (OK, ce n’est pas un jeu vidéo, mais mieux)

Afin d’aider la recherche sur la Sclérose en Plaques, notre étude recrute des volontaires sains pour passer des tests neuropsychologiques.

Hommes

35-44 ans, niveau scolaire < Bac [10 places]

45-54 ans, niveau scolaire ≥ Bac [3 places]

45-54 ans, niveau scolaire < Bac [8 places]

55-64 ans, niveau scolaire ≥ Bac [11 places]

55-64 ans, niveau scolaire < Bac [10 places]

Femmes

35-44 ans, niveau scolaire < Bac [9 places]

Centre Coordinateur – Etude CSCT : Mme Deloire ou Mr Loock – Service de Neurologie du Pr Brochet – Hôpital Pellegrin.

Tel : 05.57.57.48.17

etude.csct [ at ] hotmail [ point ] fr

Merci de votre participation

Knowledge management for Systems Biology a general and visually driven framework applied to translational medicin

Knowledge management for Systems Biology a general and visually driven framework applied to translational medicin

Dieter Maier, Wenzel Kalus, Martin Wolff, Josep Roca, Igor Marin de Mas, Nil Turan, Marta Cascante, Francesco Falciani, Miguel Hernandez, Jordi Villa-Freixa, Sascha Losko

BMC Systems Biology 2011, 5:38 doi:10.1186/1752-0509-5-38

Publications électroniques en sciences & philosophie des sciences

Je viens de recevoir un message m’annonçant les Editions Matériologiques. Le titre du message commence par “important”, précision inutile, l’expéditeur du message étant dans ma liste des importants de toute façon Je suis presque flatté d’être sur sa liste de diffusion à vrai dire.

Lisez donc braves lecteurs :

Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer l’ouverture du site des Editions Matériologiques

(Publications électroniques en sciences et en philosophie des sciences)

www.materiologiques.com

Ce sont des éditions de livres numériques, avec trois titres disponibles actuellement, et d’une revue d’épistémologie accessible gratuitement en ligne.

Il y a au moins deux des bouquins qui m’intéressent et que je vais ajouter à mon lecteur de pdf. Et j’ai chopé deux articles du n° 1 de la revue.

Je vous suggère d’y aller faire un tour et penser à vous inscrire à la newsletter pour rester informés. Ou profiter du fil RSS.

Questioning the Integrity of the John Templeton Foundation

Questioning the Integrity of the John Templeton Foundation

Sunny Bains

www.epjournal.net – 2011. 9(1): 92-11 pdf link

“La science en otage” serait un très beau titre pour décrire les activités de la JTF, c’est peut-être pour ça que Staune l’a choisi pour son dernier bouquin ?

Introduction

In the last few years, the John Templeton Foundation has garnered substantial attention by advertising in many of the US and UK’s most prestigious scholarly magazines and journals. These advertisements have showcased debates on what the Foundation describes as the “Big Questions,” some of which have a scientific theme. Various scientists, philosophers, and theologians have been paid to offer their answers to these questions.

This pronounced visibility has led many scientists and academics to wonder about the Foundation and how it operates. One of its stated goals is to forge a closer relationship between religion and science. To many scientists, this is anathema. They see religion and science as fundamentally incompatible and, therefore, that any relationship between them could only be built on dishonesty or ignorance. To others, the goal is laudable: Some scientists welcome the assistance as they attempt to reconcile their personal religious beliefs with their scientific understanding. To still others, religious or not, any science funding (part of the work of the Foundation involves providing grants for scientific research), from whatever source, is welcome.

For many who do not have a problem with the science/religion agenda of the Foundation, the issue is then one of integrity. Is the Foundation what it says it is? Are its stated goals and its actual goals the same (as judged by who and what it funds)? Does it operate in a transparent and non-corrupt way?

In this commentary, I consider five issues that suggest that the John Templeton Foundation is not what it represents itself to be:

1. The Foundation began as an overtly pro-religious organization. It has since changed its stated aims and goals, and their presentation, in a way that seems calculated to make them appear more “open-minded.” Nevertheless, the Foundation’s agenda—based on its actual activities—seems to have remained the same.
2. The Foundation’s organizational structure and the awarding of its prizes appears to be rife with cronyism.
3. Respondents to the Foundation’s “Big Questions” (at least those questions with clear links to science) are disproportionately Foundation advisors and grantees, and yet it is implied that they represent a balance in responses.
4. The Foundation finances prestigious external organizations to run its activities, often without making the participants and/or audience aware of who provided the funding.
5. The Foundation and its current chairman, John (Jack) Marks Templeton, Jr., have a history of funding what could be seen as anti-science activities and groups (particularly concerning climate-change and stemcell research).

Gene expression throughout a vertebrate’s embryogenesis

Gene expression throughout a vertebrate’s embryogenesis.

Bozinovic G, Sit TL, Hinton DE, Oleksiak MF.

BMC Genomics 2011, 12:132 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-132

la mouche

mosca1_filtered

Originally uploaded by Luis Nunes Alberto

Luis Nunes Alberto a un regard bien intéressant. Je viens de découvrir ses photos et il y en a des intéressantes, des belles, des marrantes, puis il y a aussi avec des chats.

Regardez moi cette espèce de diptère avec la décoration en “insectes” sur l’arrière des ailes… Et arrêtez de zieuter les dépravés du premier plan.

frog worship

Speaking personally, Canon Dr Chris Sugden, the executive secretary of Anglican Mainstream, said the judges were wrong to say religion was a matter of private individuals’ beliefs.

“They are treating religion like Richard Dawkins does, as if Christian faith was on a parallel with Melanesian frog worship,” he said.

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As if? What does he mean by "as if"? It's just the same stuff. [Via WEIT]