Et tu, Barack?
For presidential contenders to even hint that there might be cause for not vaccinating is irresponsible in the extreme.Posted on April 23, 2008 9:25 AM • 11 Comments •
The Island of Doubt
An irregular exploration of the struggle between the power of rational discourse and the scientific method on one hand, and the forces of superstition and dogma on the other.
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James Hrynyshyn is a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use.
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- Science is irrelevant, say Brit students
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- Sarah Palin on, you know, the molecules!
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Inspiration
The Demon-Haunted World:
Science as a Candle
in the Dark,
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A poem by Yehuda Amichai:
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The Meaning of the
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Author's site: cyamid.net
--- H. L. Mencken
By doubting we come to inquiry; and through inquiry we perceive truth.
--- Peter Abelard
Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
-- Richard Dawkins
As for evolution, it happened. Deal with it.
-- Michael Shermer.
medicine:
Women dying sooner
Just in case you needed a reminder of what's wrong with America:...Posted on April 22, 2008 9:06 AM • 8 Comments •
McCain slips into the deep end
I feel compelled to help spread this a widely as possible, in hopes of doing my bit to inoculate the country against the threat posed by a McCain presidency.Posted on March 1, 2008 8:31 AM • 5 Comments •
Placebo Nation: The antidepressant controversy
Many of us here at ScienceBlogs like to point out that most"alternative" medicines are basically placebos masquerading as the genuine article.Posted on February 26, 2008 9:59 AM • 7 Comments •
Drugs, abortion, and the Ends that justify the means
In a world in which ends can be measured. some, though not all, means are justified.Posted on January 28, 2008 10:46 AM • 3 Comments •
Charles Krauthammer's embryonic brain
A little press-commentary comparison shopping is in order following the recent news of a breakthrough in the effort to produce stem cells without using embryonic cells. I promise this won't take long. First, the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer, who announced...Posted on December 4, 2007 2:26 PM • 1 Comments •
Michael Moore vs. CNN et al.
So Michael Moore the documentarian takes on CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta the medical science guy in the former's first appearance on the network in three years, arguing that the latter committed libel by claiming the filmmaker "fudged the facts" in...Posted on July 11, 2007 12:25 PM • 6 Comments •
Autism suspect #85: Vitamin D deficiency
What about the consequences of planting yet another abortive seed of hope in the minds of parents desperate to find a reason for the incredible hardship that is autism?Posted on July 10, 2007 8:00 AM • 35 Comments •
The autism conspiracy
I take a keener interest in the autism-vaccine conspiracy nonsense, now that I'm taking my very young son to the doctors every few months for his shots. It bothers me no end that not every parent does the same, and...Posted on June 18, 2007 1:25 PM • 20 Comments •
