The Unsaid Criticisms of Science
Two things that science is struggling with at the moment are reproducibility and translatability. The problem where results are reported by a lab and then other labs struggle to reproduce the same result is happening more and more. Begley et al. (2013) attempted to repeat simple experiments from 53 papers on treating cancer cells in culture. […]
Darwin vs Lamarck or Darwin and Lamarck?
I was reading about Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and it dawned on me that perhaps he was partly right about evolution. So, most people believe that Darwin was the first to propose the theory of evolution, but really, evolution just states that the diversity of life is due to inheritance with alteration over a long period of […]
Book Chapters
Jupp, L., J.R. Rivers, and M. Bhatia. 2013. Hydrogen sulfide and substance P in acute pancreatitis. In Adaptation Biology and Medicine. Vol. 7. A.R. Popescu and P.K. Singal, editors. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. http://www.amazon.ca/Adaptation-Biology-Medicine-Vol-Developments/dp/toc/8184872143 Rivers, J.R., and J.C. Ashton. 2012. Neonatal asphyxia and stroke: morbidity, models, consequences, and treatments In Hypoxia: Causes, Types and Management. D.Vordermark, editor. Nova […]
Three Minute Thesis Competition 2011
The 2011 Three Minute Thesis Competition final was held on Wednesday 31 August in the Dunedin College of Education Auditorium, and was also streamed live online. With the help of only one static slide, nine finalists from across the university had just three minutes each in which to present their doctoral research. Our panel of […]