It’s that time of the year again, it seems, when I have lots of students writing proposals to submit to NSF to fund their graduate education or dissertation research. This always sets me to thinking about the practice of science and how one goes about being a successful scientist. I’ve written about “productive stupidity” before, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Anthropology'
Risk-Aversion and Finishing One’s Dissertation
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Anthropology · science
More on Diamond
April 24th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve been thinking some more about the issues that are raised by the debacle over Jared Diamond’s 21 April 2008 New Yorker piece and the recent announcement of a lawsuit against him. There are many things to think about here. Probably foremost amongst these are the ethical concerns relating to preserving research subjects’ privacy and [...]
Tags: Anthropology · Social Network Analysis
Jared Diamond and Anthropological Ethics
April 24th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Brian McKenna sent around to the EANTH Listserv a couple of blog posts today detailing the trouble that Jared Diamond has gotten in about a New Yorker story he wrote a year ago on the power of vengeance. This seems like a rather sordid affair but I think that Rex Golub should be commended for his [...]
Tags: Anthropology