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Welcome to The ScienceBlogs Book Club, Seed's virtual venue for hosting discussions on stimulating new titles in science, featuring reviews from across the ScienceBlogs network.
In October, 2008:
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, by Paul Offit
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In June, 2008:
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life, by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Autism's False Prophets
The Dark Lord of Vaccination has published a book, and it should me mandatory reading for antivaccine activists. Jenny McCarthy, are you listening?
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Category: Autism's False Prophets
My name is Paul Offit. I'm the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and my published expertise is in the area of vaccine safety and rotavirus-specific immune responses. (I'm the co-inventor of the...
Posted by Paul Offit at 4:51 AM • 158 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Introductory
Hello. Thanks for stopping by the ScienceBlogs Book Club. It's my pleasure to introduce our next title, and the panelists who will be discussing it with you. Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure,...
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Category: Introductory
Escherichia coli is a superstar of the microbe world. Like Zelig, E. coli has been on the scene of some of the most important discoveries of biology. For example, Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod deciphered gene regulation using E. coli's...
Posted by John Dennehy at 8:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Introductory
To kick off this book club discussion, I want to explain how I ended up the past couple years obsessing over E. coli. If you don't know much about E. coli, it may sound like a strange thing to do....
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 8:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Introductory
In this ScienceBlogs special feature, author Carl Zimmer discusses his new book, Microcosm, with Jessica Snyder Sachs (Good Germs, Bad Germs), John Dennehy (The Eviloutionary Biologist) and PZ Myers (Pharyngula).
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