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A new venue for the ScienceBlogs Meetup!

Remember how I mentioned that the venue for the ScienceBlogs Readers Meetup was going to be changed? Well, the new venue has been announced: The new spot will be at a bar on the west side called Social. Seed has reserved a room in the back, and it’s three floors in case we need even […]

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Bioethics Medicine Quackery

Oh, goody. Suzanne Somers has found new woo

Bizarrely enough, Suzanne Somers has been a common topic of discussion on this blog since the very beginning. Indeed, in one of my earliest substantive posts, way back in December 2004 when I had just started this blog on Blogger, I used her as an example of how misleading breast cancer testimonials can be. At […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine Politics

What was that about Jenny McCarthy and “Green Our Vaccines” not being anti-vaccine?

Yesterday, there was a press release announcing the “Vaccinate Your Baby” campaign being promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Every Child by Two. This morning in New York, there will be a press conference to unveil the initiative, described thusly: Every Child By Two (ECBT) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are […]

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Oops, looks like I spoke too soon…

Remember how I mentioned last Friday that the ScienceBlogs Reader Meetup is scheduled for 2 to 4 PM on Saturday, August 9 at the Arthur Ross Terrace at the American Museum of Natural History? There’s apparently been a change in plans. Don’t worry; it’s not canceled, but apparently the venue is going to change. There […]

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Biology Medicine Science

Animal rights terrorists firebomb a researcher’s house

It’s happened again, only this time it’s escalated. Sadly, this escalation was predictable. Remember back in February, when I discussed how animal rights terrorists had been harassing a researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)? At the time, protesters attempted a home invasion of a researcher, leading to a police response where a […]