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A Lib Dem peer is facing a near-four-year ban from the House of Lords, after a report by Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards revealed allegations that he propositioned a woman with “corrupt inducements to sleep with him.” Lord Lester of Herne Hill, 82, who has resigned as the Liberal Democrat’s human rights spokesperson and was suspended […]
GETTY Baroness Trumpington in her robes ahead of the State Opening of Parliament in 2014 Speaking before her retirement from the House of Lords on October 24, Tory peer Baroness Trumpington also revealed she and Margaret Thatcher used to disagree so violently onlookers thought they would come to blows. And the famously plain-speaking peer – […]
Love him or not, there’s no arguing that Elon Musk possesses a near-mythic ability to generate effusive headlines, giddy anticipation and, perhaps, overblown stock valuations. After all, this is the man who wants to colonize Mars and whisk long-distance travelers through depressurized tubes at near-supersonic speeds — but also a man running a much-hyped electric […]
Geoffrey Alpert has, since 1975, been researching how police conduct themselves, and one finding borne out in his work is that many police officers see themselves as “warriors” against crime. He’s seen that dynamic on display as he’s studied studied racial profiling and the use of force in some of the nation’s most controversial departments, […]
A leading human rights campaigner and Labour peer has warned people that “this is not the moment for conspiracy theories” amid public concern over a possible clampdown on democracy following a hike in the security level. It didn’t take long for many to speculate over the timing of the Manchester terrorist attack, which came just […]
Enlarge / Pictured: Probably an editor who peer-reviewed stuff for Tumor Biology. (credit: flickr user: 派脆客 Lee) The journal Tumor Biology is retracting 107 research papers after discovering that the authors faked the peer review process. This isn’t the journal’s first rodeo. Late last year, 58 papers were retracted from seven different journals— 25 came from Tumor Biology for […]
The overuse of antibiotics is brewing disaster for humanity. The post Peer Into the Post-Apocalyptic Future of Antimicrobial Resistance appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
Niko Kriegeskorte won’t review an academic paper unless he can publish it publicly on his personal blog—and his plan is forcing science to shape up. The post The Rogue Neuroscientist on a Mission to Hack Peer Review appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
A 76-YEAR-OLD peer has urged the Government to publish pictures of elderly women smoking to discourage youngsters from taking up the habit. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton said that her grandson, when she asked if he smoked, said most of his friends did but he did not because it was something “old ladies” did. To laughter at Question Time, the Labour peer said: “He was very polite about it, saying he didn’t want to be rude. “But wouldn’t […]
