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	<title>Science Surf &#187; Ethics + Law</title>
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	<description>But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil</description>
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		<title>The 294 records the cigarette industry kept about me</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/03/09/the-294-records-the-cigarette-industry-kept-about-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/03/09/the-294-records-the-cigarette-industry-kept-about-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children + Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[badscience.net writes about at a formal review of a smoke associated effect that found 43 [studies] in total, and overall, smoking significantly increases your risk of Alzheimers &#8230; 11 of the studies were written by people with affiliations to the tobacco industry. This wasnâ€™t always declared, so to double check, the researchers searched on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late payment by EU</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2010/01/18/late-payment-by-eu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is an always increasing problem: the EU doesn&#8217;t pay in time for your science. The European Ombudsman now invites observations from the public concerning his own-initiative inquiry into the problem of late payment by the European Commission [link].]]></description>
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		<title>First major publisher releases article metrics</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/09/17/first-major-publisher-releases-article-metrics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/09/17/first-major-publisher-releases-article-metrics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer + Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a press release Today, the open-access publisher the Public Library of Science (PLoS; www.plos.org), announces the release of an expanded set of article-level metrics on its scientific and medical journal articles (some 14,000 articles across 7 titles). The article-level metrics program was launched in March 2009, and with todayâ€™s addition of online usage data, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to cheat with timesheet</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/09/16/how-to-cheat-with-timesheet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/09/16/how-to-cheat-with-timesheet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overfunding of research seems to be a largely neglected area. Getting money twice for the same project (or doing something different than being in the application) seems to be the &#8220;creative&#8221; solution many groups are choosing to get innovative ideas tested while avoiding premature leakage to the public. As far as I see overfunding is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So few retractions</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/09/10/so-few-retractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science + Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retraction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NG has a remarkable retraction &#8211; one of the few that are ever published which is a fact that that may otherwise rise severe doubts on the current science system. Re-examination of the families and the molecular genetic data by a neurologist and a geneticist who were not involved in the original study has revealed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet neutrality</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/07/28/internet-neutrality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer + Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[darknet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new Science paper is worried about internet neutrality: &#8230; Researchers who support &#8220;network neutrality&#8221; have become worried that the Internet may lose its innovative edge. They are concerned that control could be shifting from the edges of the Internet toward the service providers at the center, which would allow the providers to have &#8220;gatekeeper&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention grabbing headlines</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/07/22/attention-grabbing-headlines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/07/22/attention-grabbing-headlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asthma + Allergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NI has an editorial on hyping research Although these attention-grabbing headlines might help sell papers and increase traffic to newspaper websites, such reporting is irresponsible to the public and to science in general. Even if the article itself is more balanced, it must be remembered that many readers never get much beyond the headline. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world is simultaneously infinitely horrible and infinitely wonderful</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/05/14/the-world-is-simultaneously-infinitely-horrible-and-infinitely-wonderful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/05/14/the-world-is-simultaneously-infinitely-horrible-and-infinitely-wonderful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human + Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constructive force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonviolent social change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social change organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[societal transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traumatic experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world is simultaneously infinitely horrible and infinitely wonderful &#8211; a short quote to promote this great online book on &#8220;Trauma and nonviolent social change&#8221; &#8211; power up &#8220;power-under. Oppression is a social toxin which, through the mechanism of trauma, literally makes people sick. It is a sickness that causes massive personal suffering, and when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is evil contagious?</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/05/03/is-evil-contagious/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/05/03/is-evil-contagious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 10:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics + Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inborn differences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sartre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zimbardo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here comes an update of the Lucifer post as there are new books on the market. Some want to understand (like Arendt or Amery) while others (like Nietzsche and Sartre) would strongly oppose. I am somewhere betweenboth parties with an increasing tendency to explain human (and corporate) behavior by social group pressure while there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seoul update of the WMA declaration &#8211; you lost your rights</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/03/19/seoul-update-of-the-wma-declaration-you-lost-your-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/03/19/seoul-update-of-the-wma-declaration-you-lost-your-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having written in the last year a widely discussed paper about Informed Consent the new WMA revision #25 makes this rather waste paper: For medical research using identifiable human material or data, physicians must normally seek consent for the collection, analysis, storage and/or reuse. There may be situations where consent would be impossible or impractical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A better search engine for science?</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/03/09/a-better-search-engine-for-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2009/03/09/a-better-search-engine-for-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer + Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics + Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History + Insights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infinite multiplication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keyword searches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[math problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiplication table]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradigm shift]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New rumors say about Wolfram alpha In this respect it is vastly smarter than (and different from) Google. Google simply retrieves documents based on keyword searches. Google doesn&#8217;t understand the question or the answer, and doesn&#8217;t compute answers based on models of various fields of human knowledge. &#8230; or those who are more scientifically inclined, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer ever meet?</title>
		<link>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2008/12/30/did-karl-barth-and-albert-schweitzer-ever-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wjst.de/blog/2008/12/30/did-karl-barth-and-albert-schweitzer-ever-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthias Wjst</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics + Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[albert schweitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eberhard Busch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl-Barth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This question goes back nearly 20 years when I asked that Professor Busch (who wrote a most insightful biography on Karl Barth) as I couldn&#8217;t find anything neither in GÃ¼nsbach nor in ZÃ¼rich where most of Schweitzer&#8217;s writing are being stored. But now &#8211; equipped with a national license to the digital Barth library- I [...]]]></description>
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