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Since it's my birthday (and we do not work on this holy day), I'm giving links to some posts that got a lot of traffic or links (somebody liked them....). Enjoy:
Scientific Consensus Is a Process, Not a List of Names
To Restore Science to Its Rightful Place, We Need to Redefine Elitism
A Question for Science Journalists: What About the 'Other Side' of Science?
Note to Obama: You Need to Rebuild Trust Within Your Own Party
Why Were the Donut Fearers Ever Taken Seriously?
Obama and Self-Inflicted Negotiation: More of the Same?
How Is Turning Away the Mentally Ill a Good Solution?
How to Deal with Foreclosed Home Owners
Krugman Discusses the Mad Biologist: Now If I Had Only Put That on My Blog
This Is What Class Warfare Looks Like: The So-Called Free Market Edition
Big Sh-tpile and Why Geithner's Plan Won't Work
To Be Scientifically Literate, You Do Have to Know Things
Kristof on MRSA: Good, but There's Better Evidence
Biotech and Business Journalism: It's the Business Model, Stupid
I Told You the Pork Lobbyists Would Comment on Kristof's Column
Very Wealthy People Can Be Very Stupid: The Obama Tax Plan Edition
Comments
Happy Birthday, Mike!
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | December 25, 2009 3:54 AM
Nicholas Kristof: STATS winner of the worst “science” journalist of the year.
http://www.stats.org/stories/2009/worst_science_kristof_dec14_09.html
Posted by: Aggiemicro | December 26, 2009 12:58 PM