David Colquhoun, eminent scientist and maintainer of the excellent blog DC’s Improbable Science, has recently returned home to the U.K. after a trip across the pond to the U.S. and Canada, where, among other things, he gave a lecture at the University of Toronto, as well as the Riker Memorial Lecture at the Oregon Health […]
Month: February 2008
Three weeks ago, I wrote about some truly irresponsible antivaccination propaganda masquerading as entertainment that aired in the form of a television show called Eli Stone. This show, which portrayed its hero taking on the case of an autistic boy whose mother blamed his autism on thimerosal (going under the fictional name “mercuritol”) in vaccines […]
Due to the unfortunate intrusion of real life into blogging resulting in the inability of this week’s previously scheduled host to be able to fulfill his hosting duties for the February 28 edition of the Skeptics’ Circle, there has been a last minute change of hosts for the next Circle. The 81st Meeting of the […]
Dave Munger has done the science blogosphere a service by spearheading the effort to highlight and aggregate serious posts about peer-reviewed research through his Research Blogging aggregator website and his Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting blog. It’s a great idea and a great source for what science and medical bloggers say about the latest published […]
Must. See. This. Movie. It doesn’t matter that Harrison Ford is 65 and getting a bit long in the tooth for the whole action thing. I need my fix.