Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

US foreign policy

Where Science Meets Foreign Policy

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has argued that by working with China, the US can encourage the country to change, while Frank Wolf (R-Va.) has suggested detachment would show that the US opposes a number of China's policies, and has drawn up a proposal for a ban on bilateral science talks with China. S. Pelech points out that government organizations in numerous countries have designated significant funding to support scientific research with specific partnering countries to induce collaborations, but this is usually at the expense of funding for other research programs that are less politically-motivated. Effective collaborations arise from the congruent interests of scientists throughout the world, and geography is not really a barrier except when politics intervenes. Read More...