Popper rejoined “Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers,” after which Wittgenstein threw down the poker and stormed out of the room.[1] A more recent anecdote in this century gives rise to another moral rule, “thou shalt not bully graduate students working for your adversary. [read post]

Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation.[12] Wells was notorious for its poor assessment of all the determinants of scientific causation.[13] The decision was met with a storm of opprobrium from the legal and medical community.[14] No scientists or legal scholars offered a serious defense of Wells on the scientific merits. [read post]