The Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
Charges of bioterrorism dismissed against an art professor who used a common bacterium to protest biological warfare.Posted on April 24, 2008 3:56 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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Media:
AFP newswire even less reliable than Chinese spokesperson on bird flu
Agence France Presse: reliably unreliable.Posted on April 13, 2008 3:41 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fox News: an excremental contribution to the news
Stepping in Fox News.Posted on March 22, 2008 7:09 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How not to deny a rumor about bird flu
Canadian hospital denies they have bird flu cases. They almost certainly don't. But they could have done a better job denying it.Posted on March 20, 2008 7:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Unfettered access to scientific work via open access publication
The tide is turning in making free access to scientific work really free.Posted on February 15, 2008 3:20 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Next year's flu vaccine
WHO releases seed strains for next year's vaccines and we send you to the place to read about it.Posted on February 15, 2008 7:06 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bird flu and the Fifth Estate
Sometimes can't live with them, certainly can't live without them.Posted on February 11, 2008 7:33 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Director of OIE tries to recover from comments about bird flu (doesn't make it)
Unapologetic and still wrong.Posted on January 17, 2008 7:17 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Blogs, bad reporting and WHO [corrected]
WHO responds to my criticism. This is the way it's done when it's done right.Posted on January 3, 2008 7:13 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Spinning bird flu: clockwise or counterclockwise?
Two wire services, one quote, two storiesPosted on December 19, 2007 7:27 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Smoking ban in UK: same story in five newspapers with different headlines
Rashomon plus one.Posted on September 11, 2007 3:55 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Being a journalist means never having to say you were wrong
Newspapers make lots of mistakes. But their mistakes aren't news.Posted on September 10, 2007 3:56 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New York Times uses story, neglects to mention blogger is the source
Times editor drops mention of blogger who broke story.Posted on September 5, 2007 3:56 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When headlines make bird flu
Headline writer's diseasePosted on June 28, 2007 6:57 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nature Precedings
Biology and biomedical research comes of agePosted on June 25, 2007 4:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Keith Olbermann, Paris Hilton and too much meanness
The dark side of Keith Olbermann.Posted on June 23, 2007 4:25 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mr. Wizard gives St. Peter a science lesson
How to sell a camera.Posted on June 16, 2007 7:26 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Don Herbert, 1917 - 2007
Mr. Wizard has died.Posted on June 13, 2007 3:25 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Small victories
Two steps forward, another step to come. Which direction we don't know as yet.Posted on June 7, 2007 3:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dr.Siegel goes to the movies
Qualified compliment for an old target.Posted on June 6, 2007 4:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The gift to be simple just keeps on giving
The Communist Conspiracy redux.Posted on February 15, 2007 4:03 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Frivolous lawsuits, II
MPAA picks on the wrong guy.Posted on September 7, 2006 7:03 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science journalism awards
One award goes for bird flu reporting. We give our pick.Posted on August 28, 2006 7:13 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Network TV at historic low
TV networks go down the crapper.Posted on August 13, 2006 7:42 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Frivolous lawsuits
RIAA and MPAA: champs of the frivolous lawsuitPosted on July 14, 2006 7:01 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Time savers for journalists and readers
Template for journalists and readers for automatic response to yet another story the Bushies are spying on us.Posted on June 26, 2006 7:16 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Good night and good luck
Indonesian reporters worry about covering bird flu. Are they at risk?Posted on June 25, 2006 7:32 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
