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Mare BV's List: Sociology of Science and Technology
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Oct 23, 14
The White House is now considering how robots can help fight Ebola. A look at the role three types of robots could play in combating the virus.
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Aug 06, 14
The world must reject the myths and expose the risks of the ideology of nuclear deterrence if it is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Article that caused harrasing and firing of researcher. -
Aug 06, 14
The Los Alamos National Laboratory fired respected security expert James Doyle after retroactively declaring his scholarly article classified.
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Jul 29, 14
Abstract
Aims: To determine the likelihood of finding an antivaccination site on the world wide web and to characterise their explicit claims and rhetorical appeals.
Methods: Using “vaccination” and “immunisation”, examining the first 10 sites displayed on seven leading search engines. Detailed examination of content of 100 antivaccination sites found on Google.
Results: 43% of websites were antivaccination (all of the first 10 on Google). Main rhetorical appeals involve themes of the scientific veracity of antivaccination argument; rapport with parents seeking to protect their children from harm; and alleged collusion between doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, and government to deny vaccine harm.
Conclusions: There is a high probability that parents will encounter elaborate antivaccination material on the world wide web. Factual refutational strategies alone are unlikely to counter the highly rhetorical appeals that shape these sites. -
Jul 29, 14
This volume aims to address the effects of Intellectual Property Rights on the processes of innovation and innovation diffusion with respect to developing countries. Contributions cover ethical inc...
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Jul 29, 14
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Jul 29, 14
A Fresno husband is using wearable technology to track the health of his wife, who is in a coma-like state VIDEO
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Science is a gift economy; value is defined as the degree to which one's ideas have freely contributed to knowledge and impacted the thinking of others. Since authors use citations to indicate which publications influenced their work, scientific impact can be measured as a function of the citations that a publication receives. Looking for quantitative measures of scientific impact, administrators and policy makers have thus often turned to citation data
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Oct 22, 12
Carl Bergstrom a theoretical biologist at the U. of Washington, and Jevin West, a postdoctoral researcher there, analyzed whether the authors of two million scholarly articles were male or female.
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Jan 07, 11
"Many results that are rigorously proved and accepted start shrinking in later studies."
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