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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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Category: Medicine
Last week I went to Philadelphia to a very interesting meeting - a Social Media Summit on Immunization. Sponsored by Immunization Action Coalition, this was a second annual meeting for health-care non-profits, organized (amazingly well, with great attention to detail)...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:06 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ideology
I got this video from Orac's blog where an interesting comment thread is developing. This also goes against those who lament the "echo chambers" but those tend to be the same people who write HeSaidSheSaid articles every day -...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:10 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pseudoscience
Michael Specter, author of Denialism, the Keynote Speaker at ScienceOnline2010, spoke at TED conference a couple of months ago. The video of his TED talk is now up, and Michael wrote an editorial to go with it:...
Posted by Coturnix at 7:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
In a recent post, my SciBling Jason Rosenhouse with whom I usually agree on these matters, voices a strong disagreement with this quote (from Thomas Dixon's book Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in...
Posted by Coturnix at 1:04 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Society
If a publisher offered me a contract to write a book under a title that would be something like "Unscientific America", how would I go about it? I would definitely be SUCH a scientist! But, being such a scientist does...
Posted by Coturnix at 4:24 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
This is exciting! From Young Australian Skeptics: Skeptical Blog Anthology 2009: Inspired by the annual The Open Laboratory, the Skeptical Blog Anthology is a printed anthology of blog posts voted the very best of 2009, managed by the Young Australian...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:12 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
An article that is likely to make the rounds of the science/medical blogosphere (and get the anti-vaccer trolls out of the woodwork): Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents don't believe them. Can scientists...
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Category: Fun
I know everyone and their grandmother has already posted this. But, if there is going to be a virally spread internet meme, this one is much better than most:...
Posted by Coturnix at 2:15 PM • •
Category: Science Education
If you walk into a room and flip a switch and the light does not come on, what do you do? I doubt that you throw yourself on the floor in fear, speaking in tongues, praying, blaming the Aliens or asking the Government to help you.
Posted by Coturnix at 5:05 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Pseudoscience
The Touch That Doesn't Heal : Is there anecdotal evidence that unconventional therapies sometimes yield positive outcomes? Yes. There's also anecdotal evidence that athletes who refuse to shave during winning streaks sometimes bring home championships. It was George D. Lundberg,...
Posted by Coturnix at 6:17 PM • 2 Comments •
