Author: Alice_admin

We’re still missing a lot of undoubtedly relevant local history of what exactly happened at University Colorado Boulder with regard to Prof. Patti Adler’s “Deviance in U.S. Society” course. Here’s what we do know, and why this case really worries me: Adler’s teaching at “CU” has recently been brought under extraordinary scrutiny because of a…

This comes from personal experience and observations, but also my background in sex research. If you don’t believe in sex and gender differences, or in sex being important in the evolved and cultured human mind, please move along. This will only make you mad. So you’re about to walk into some professional situation–a conference, a collaborative…

“The SUPPORT defenders are going to be on the wrong side of history. And what’s shocking is that they don’t recognize that.” I nodded in agreement to this email from Lois Shepherd of the University of Virginia. Lois had sent it a couple of days after we had met in Washington at the August 28th…

For folks who could not attend last week’s meeting held by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (or who ran into the problem of the live-stream cutting in and out), here is a run down of what I think were the most salient elements. This is based on notes I took at the…

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It was sometime in late 2010 when my mate started thinking about ways to kill me off. He was just trying to be helpful. He knew that I had become extremely sick of my work persona — the part of me that tries to fight every day for the good — so sick of it,…

The SUPPORT study is causing a split within bioethics between people who think the OHRP was right to object to the way the study was run and those who think the OHRP is out of line. I remain genuinely confused as to why we are even arguing over some issues that strike me as Informed…

Lately people have been asking me about the private, pro bono, client-centered histories I sometimes provide for people who have been subject to medical trauma. Providing these histories to individuals — work that remains almost completely invisible to the outside world — has been the most consistently satisfying aspect of my professional life. I would…

On a Friday afternoon, I usually prefer to pour a glass of wine, make a nice casserole, and play Dr. Pangloss, meditating on how I live in the best of all possible worlds. Never mind the large pile of laundry, our unfinished tax returns, and a congested sinus that has me fantasizing about taking a…

Around the time our son was born, our city switched over from conventional garbage trucks to the EZ-Cart system. Under the conventional approach, two sanitation workers would work the truck. One would drive, and one would get out of the truck, lift our cans, and empty the contents into the back of the truck. Under…