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Reading Between the Lines
Posted by Steve Schoenbaum on June 25, 2010 Steve Schoenbaum writes: “Inside the Outbreaks”, Mark Pendergrast’s wonderful history of the Centers for Disease Control’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), can be read on many levels. I confess that as a former EIS officer (1967-1969), personally familiar with most of the “elite medical detectives” of the first few decades, I tended to read it “between…
Inside the Outbreaks
Posted by Mark Pendergrast on June 21, 2010 Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion. The origin of the book goes back to an email I got in 2004 from my old high school and…
Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh
Posted by Erin Johnson on June 30, 2009 This book review was originally posted by GrrlScientist on Living the Scientific Life. tags: book review, Unholy Business, religious antiquities, biblical antiquities, fraud, Christianity, Judaism, Nina Burleigh There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. – Friedrich Nietzsche In November 2002, an…
Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s View of Human Evolution by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
Posted by Erin Johnson on June 30, 2009 This review was originally posted by Brian Switek on Laelaps Since the early 20th century, at least, young earth creationists have attempted to blame Charles Darwin for genocide, world wars, and whatever political movements seemed most threatening at one time or another (i.e. communism). What Darwin is faulted with changes with the times, but most…
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend
Posted by Erin Johnson on June 18, 2009 This review was originally posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on Dynamics of Cats. As I was strolling through town a few weeks ago, I saw a flyer advertising a talk on campus by Prof. Barbara Oakley, talking about her book “Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend.”…
Davenport’s Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics, by Jan Witkowski and John Inglis (eds.)
Posted by Book Club on January 22, 2009 Review by John Lynch, from Stranger Fruit Originally posted on: January 16, 2009 12:56 PM It is always cute when the anti-evolutionists (in all their guises) try to do history; witness here, for example. Veteran observers are not surprised to find them trying to warp history (see here, here, here & here for that). Nowhere…