Column – Suzan Mazur

The news of Mom’s passing this spring shocked the northeastern Pennsylvania community where our family lived. Florence Rosemary Mazur was a vibrant woman of 84 who died in March after a month’s hospitalizaton, having suddenly contracted a mysterious … Read more »

Opinion – Suzan Mazur

After a two-week review of the following letter, the University of Chicago Press has advised “Via Electronic Mail” and their legal counsel that they stand by their man, Massimo Pigliucci, and will neither remove his junk science book from circulation … Read more »

Column – Suzan Mazur

Since MIT Press does not fact-check its books (University of California, Berkeley does) — according to the above email to me this past week from Executive Editor, Robert Prior — its new Evolution: The Extended Synthesis volume opens with this … Read more »

Column – Suzan Mazur

While the chief of the US National Institute of Mental Health this week stopped short of saying scientists are corrupt because of their ties to industry, as AP reported — Vera Hassner Sharav does not give scientists a similar pass, partly because the … Read more »

Column – Suzan Mazur

Let’s begin with the facts: The days of evolutionary science being an exclusive old boys club are over. The public is a party to the discourse now and knows the emphasis in evolutionary science is on VISION and not textbook rules. And while Rutgers philosopher … Read more »

Column – Suzan Mazur

No, passing peer review is not the scientific equivalent of the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. . . I confess that decades ago as a Hearst Magazines fledgling I would on occasion pass by, and with some curiosity, peek in the glassed-in Good … Read more »

Column – Suzan Mazur

While the hacked emails episode several months ago revealing attempts by scientists to withhold information about global warming from publication has put the matter of peer review under scrutiny like never before , secrecy in peer review continues … Read more »

Column – Suzan Mazur

“Grants are awarded by your colleagues who sit in Research Councils and Foundations. Most of us, in any establishment, tend to be conservative and to follow what is called the paradigm. This creates a cycle of submission. . . . The disregard for science’s … Read more »

Article – Suzan Mazur

Among the high profile clients of British antiquities dealer Robin Symes was Maurice Tempelsman — one of the pillars of the Eastern Establishment (Council on Foreign Relations, Africa-America Institute, long-time beau of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis … Read more »

Article – Suzan Mazur

Vincent Fleury is a French scientist investigating origin of form with experiments involving cellular flow. He was recently featured in a PZ Myers Pharyngula blog — where his work first caught my eye. Read more »