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New theory on Earth's Magnetic Field: Theory interesting, reporting botched

Category: Archaeology

... the interface between simplicity and complexity causes causes little balls of misunderstanding to come flying out of the mix like pieces of raw pizza dough if the guy making the pizza was the Tasmanian Devil ...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 8:36 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Example of Bad Science News Deployment: Caffeine - Leukemia Link

Category: Health

In an astonishing demonstration of the evils of Marketing in a Research University Context, the University of Leicester today announced that an upcoming research project would find a link between coffee consumption by pregnant women and leukemia to develop later in their offspring. This is...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:59 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Sausage Press

Category: Stoopid News

Really, the news media is a meat grinder. It is a semi-intelligent powerful automaton meat grinder, where the meat is almost any kind of information and the stuff it puts out is the sausage they call reporting. The meat grinder must make a certain number...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Prozac and Placebos

Late last month, I put up a quick post, New-generation antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression, that addressed a PLoS published metastudy of interest. I was careful to use the phrasing from the paper as the title of my post, and to...

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Posted by Greg Laden at 6:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks