Regular readers will have noted that Orac has not posted anything new in nearly a week. There's an explanation, and it's a grant deadline. Orac will return.
Tag: grant
While a grant deadline distracts Orac, create your own Insolence! Open thread time!
For the last few days, real life concerns over keeping his lab funded have shockingly interfered with Orac's blogging. Being the benevolent blogmaster that he is, Orac has decided to open the floodgates with an open thread. Create your own Insolence. And, hey, let's be careful out there. And don't push each other's buttons (too much).
“Transparency” should not equal a license to harass scientists
Kevin Folta was subject to an abusive FOIA request for his emails by US Right To Know, an anti-GMO group seeking to harass him for his advocacy for GMOs. Paul Thacker, a journalist, used those emails without pointing out the true nature of the source of the FOIA request, and has argued for an expansive view of FOIA that is basically a license for groups like USTRK to harass scientists.