Comments on: The Four Musketeers http://blog.nextbio.com/2009/06/22/the-four-musketeers/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:43:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Hope Leman http://blog.nextbio.com/2009/06/22/the-four-musketeers/#comment-453 Hope Leman Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:28:49 +0000 http://blog.nextbio.com/?p=526#comment-453 Speaking as your daughter, Craig B. Leman, I am honored you stopped by. Frontline physicians (like you) and their patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of the Open Science movement. And you taught me to admire people like our Four Musketeers—intelligent people putting their skills to use for the greater good of humanity as you have done all your life. Speaking as your daughter, Craig B. Leman, I am honored you stopped by. Frontline physicians (like you) and their patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of the Open Science movement. And you taught me to admire people like our Four Musketeers—intelligent people putting their skills to use for the greater good of humanity as you have done all your life.

]]> By: craig b. leman http://blog.nextbio.com/2009/06/22/the-four-musketeers/#comment-446 craig b. leman Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:21:20 +0000 http://blog.nextbio.com/?p=526#comment-446 As an octagenarian non-scientist ( I am a retired surgeon who was once told by an academic internist that a double-blind study is a study conducted by TWO surgeons ), I am probably not entitled to offer an opinion on this subject in this century. However, I am very much in favor of Open Science, particularly as it relates to medicine and health-related topics. I cherish the ideal of an open cooperative scientific community where the virtue of helping each other, instead of beating out or outstripping each other, is the ethos. The monetary rewards from patents of new products and processes encourage secrecy, discourage transparency and collegiality, and tend to slow commercialize their integration into society. So, I say sic'em to the Four Musketeers, as they charge against the Four Horsemen of the Scientific Apocalypse!! Craig B. Leman. M. D. As an octagenarian non-scientist ( I am a retired surgeon who was once told by an academic internist that a double-blind study is a study conducted by TWO surgeons ), I am probably not entitled to offer an opinion on this subject in this century. However, I am very much in favor of Open Science, particularly as it relates to medicine and health-related topics. I cherish the ideal of an open cooperative scientific community where the virtue of helping each other, instead of beating out or outstripping each other, is the ethos. The monetary rewards from patents of new products and processes encourage secrecy, discourage transparency and collegiality, and tend to slow commercialize their integration into society. So, I say sic’em to the Four Musketeers, as they charge against the Four Horsemen of the Scientific Apocalypse!!
Craig B. Leman. M. D.

]]> By: Hope Leman http://blog.nextbio.com/2009/06/22/the-four-musketeers/#comment-445 Hope Leman Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:29:41 +0000 http://blog.nextbio.com/?p=526#comment-445 Hi, Bill. Thank you for your funny note. Steve Koch would be d’Artagnan, as he is the newest on the Open Science scene of the figures I discuss. I do worry that people looking for material on the novel by Dumas will get to this post and say, “What has all this got to do with French swashbucklers?” You are far too modest—everything you say is of substance and well worth reading. But I think you are right that people do point to it and I will have to rely on that to keep me apprised. Not a very scientific method, but given your stubbornness on Twitter it will have to do. Hope Hi, Bill. Thank you for your funny note. Steve Koch would be d’Artagnan, as he is the newest on the Open Science scene of the figures I discuss. I do worry that people looking for material on the novel by Dumas will get to this post and say, “What has all this got to do with French swashbucklers?”

You are far too modest—everything you say is of substance and well worth reading. But I think you are right that people do point to it and I will have to rely on that to keep me apprised. Not a very scientific method, but given your stubbornness on Twitter it will have to do.

Hope

]]> By: bill http://blog.nextbio.com/2009/06/22/the-four-musketeers/#comment-439 bill Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:32 +0000 http://blog.nextbio.com/?p=526#comment-439 So, who's who? Porthos, Athos, Aramis, d'Artagnan? :-) I could add the button but there wouldn't be anything to follow. I only use Twitter to search for rapid news updates and never tweet anything myself. I tried Twitter for a few weeks and found it far too noisy for me to use as an efficient info stream -- I spend too much time online as it is! So now I only get the tweets that are piped into FriendFeed, which seems to give me pretty good coverage. I think you can trust your network on this one. If I say anything useful, someone you are already following will either have the same idea independently or point to what I've said. You won't miss anything by not following me. :-) So, who’s who? Porthos, Athos, Aramis, d’Artagnan? :-)

I could add the button but there wouldn’t be anything to follow. I only use Twitter to search for rapid news updates and never tweet anything myself.

I tried Twitter for a few weeks and found it far too noisy for me to use as an efficient info stream — I spend too much time online as it is! So now I only get the tweets that are piped into FriendFeed, which seems to give me pretty good coverage.

I think you can trust your network on this one. If I say anything useful, someone you are already following will either have the same idea independently or point to what I’ve said. You won’t miss anything by not following me. :-)

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