Author: Benjamin Gregory Carlisle

A year ago, I received a message from Anna Powell-Smith about a research paper written by two doctors from Cambridge University that was a mirror image of a post I wrote on my personal blog1 roughly two years prior. The structure of the document was the same, as was the rationale, the methods, and the… Continue reading Recapping the recent plagiarism scandal

On 2015 February 18, James Overton visited the STREAM research group in Montreal, where he presented his research into what scientists are doing when give an explanation for something. Many accounts of scientific explanation have been offered by philosophers of science over the years, but Overton’s offering differs in that he set out to establish… Continue reading Semantic natural language processing and philosophy of science

The moral acceptability of a clinical trial is rooted in the risk and benefit for patients, as well as the ability of the trial to produce generalisable and useful scientific knowledge. The ability of a clinical trial to justify its claims to producing new knowledge depends in part on its ability to recruit patients to… Continue reading Unsuccessful trial accrual and human subjects protections: An empirical analysis of recently closed trials