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SciBlogs > Virginia Heffernans livejournal NYT article
Posted by ERV on July 31, 2010 I think its pretty obvious to even the most casual observer of this blog, I am not a professional writer. I am a scientist-in-training who is madly in love with viruses, and wants the general public to understand how cool viruses are too, so I write this blag. While I have been coaxed into writing…
Oklahoma: Full of SINNERS!
Posted by ERV on July 20, 2010 My mom and her friends have been having a fun time with recent Oklahoma weather– We had constant ice storms that crippled the city this winter. Spring gave us loads of tornadoes and of course, the sideways baseball-sized hail. This summer has been ‘filled’ with flooding… Mom & Co. giggle: “Better stock up on OFF!.…
SciBlogs caves to hysterics
Posted by ERV on July 8, 2010 All I ask from people… All I fucking ask from people, is intellectual consistency. And this seemingly simple request is apparently, impossible. I dont believe a fucking word, of anyone, who has FREAKED THE FUCK OUT over the fucking Pepsi Blog. And heres why. JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY/CONFLICTS OF INTEREST/POLITICAL BIAS OBSTRUCTING SCIENCE In 2008-2009, we had…
FDA and NASA FTW! YAY!
Posted by ERV on June 24, 2010 HA! Know how Lenny is finally getting his comeuppance for selling all that quack crap? I got an anon comment this afternoon giving us a little update: Dear Mr. : This is to acknowledge receipt of your recent message left in my voice mail mailbox. We have opened a file on this matter and an…
ATTN MIT kids! How to communicate science
Posted by ERV on May 18, 2010 You laugh, you lose: Learn to better communicate your research to non-scientists at the Workshop on Communicating Science & Engineering with Chris Mooney When: May 24, 2010-9am-1pm. Lunch will be provided. Where: MIT- Room/Bldg TBA Why: These days, amid ongoing media controversies over climate change, the teaching of evolution, the safety of vaccines, and many…
XMRV and Chronic Fatigue and Autism and Chronic Lyme Disease: “Trusted organizations”
Posted by ERV on May 14, 2010 A while back I wrote about how the lead researcher at the Whittemore Peterson Institute, Judy Mikovits, is speaking at Autismone, a huge anti-vax rally in Chicago later this month. I thought Judy was just a crank. Dime a dozen, whatevs. Turns out things are worse than that. Much much worse than that. Its cranks…
HIV Denier FAIL
Posted by ERV on March 20, 2010 AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Know how a while back, when I let that ‘House of Numbers’ spam through for the lulz? Well, apparently that spam was sent by a real human, not a spambot. Like, a real breathing human with no life. Cause humanspambot took that comment going through as an opportunity to spam numerous other posts on…
The Scientific Communication Messiah has arrived!
Posted by ERV on February 26, 2010 Boy, do I have egg on my face! After I just made fun of the absurdity of Chris Mooneys ‘building bridges with antivaxers’ or ‘ladders to heaven’ or ‘rope swings to Creationists’ or whatever strategy, Mooney is named a Templeton Foundation ‘fellow’. Like most of you, my initial response was “What a douche.” But then…
ERVs superpower prevails again!
Posted by ERV on February 16, 2010 Thanks to the numerous vaccines I have received over the years, I have superpowers. 100% serious, here. I mean, I cant fly. Cant see through walls. Nothing cliche like that. No, my superpower is, I can predict what Creationists are going to say/do before they say/do it. You might think this is a pointless superpower…
IMPORTANT NEWS! Someone says stuff they have said in the past and are acting the same way they always act!
Posted by ERV on February 6, 2010 Its not news that I like vampire fiction. Grew up with Lestat, eh, its my fluff hobby. One of my favorite vampires is Andre, from the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries. Dunno why– hes not in the books a lot, but there was something about him that caught my fancy. (spoilers ahead) I got (and still am)…