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A postdoc by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his research in protein structure and function get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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Category: health policy
I recently had the pleasure of writing an op-ed piece about health care reform for my hometown newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and it ran in the paper today. You can check it out online here. I grew up reading...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 10:41 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
Although I've only written a bit about the recent outbreak of influenza A H1N1 (swine flu), I'd encourage you to take a look at this post by Kent Newsome that discusses where to find reliable information on this topic. This...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 11:26 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: medicine
Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine released a report entitled "Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice". As far as I can tell, the full report is only available for a fairly substantial charge, but these are some of...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 9:54 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: media
"He said, she said" journalism enabled industry-sponsored global warming denialism.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 11:46 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: global warming
This time he relies on a recent New York Times article I've already lambasted for being totally anecdotal, lacking any hard facts, alarmist, and generally irresponsible
Posted by Nick Anthis at 10:55 AM • 13 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
An ironic juxtaposition
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:31 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: media
An article in yesterday's New York Times relies exclusively on anecdotal evidence.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:17 AM • 35 Comments •
Category: media
Can you spot the stupidity?
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:15 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: evolution
I'm not sure where one finds it, but if such a thing does exist, I doubt you'll find it populated by scientists
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:05 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Life of Nick
I'll be on Sky News at about 11:30 BST this Friday to talk about Barack Obama's visit to the UK and his support among Americans living abroad
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:45 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: movies
I'm starting to feel a little less guilty about my negative review of Sizzle.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: media
Just a bit of self-promotion here, but on Friday I got a nice mention by Curtis Brainard in the Columbia Journalism Review blog The Kicker: Yesterday, The Scientific Activist blog (part of the ScienceBlogs.com community) carried a keen-eyed piece of...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:22 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: media
It doesn't live up to its own standard on this one.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Election 2008
I'm quoted in a story today in my alma mater's student paper on candidates using social networking sites.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 11:27 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: biology
Researchers discover methane-metabolizing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments and may have implications for global warming.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: stem cells
The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:54 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Bush Administration
At least Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns didn't do anything warranting a jail sentence.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 6:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
A detailed list of some of the high-impact reporting done by blogs
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:30 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Barack Obama
He calls for bilateral talks and unrestricted Cuban American visitation and remittance rights.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:50 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: global warming
August 9, 2007, will go down in history as a great day for global warming denialism. On Wednesday, the 8th, well-known global warming denialist Steve McIntyre published a post on his blog about NASA finding a flaw in some of...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 1:54 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: media
The New York Times is currently offering free Times Select access for university students and faculty. If you have a university email address, click here to sign up....
Posted by Nick Anthis at 12:17 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: global warming
Despite the press frenzy, the new plan is not a major departure from administration policy, it continues to flout the tried and true international process led by the UN, and it does not contain mandatory emissions caps.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:31 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: stem cells
"Destroying human embryos" is not an objective description of stem cell research!
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:04 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: media
Yahoo News joins CNN in confusing Obama and Osama.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:03 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: media
The Scientific Activist received a shout out yesterday in the latest issue of the Ventura County Reporter in Sandra Sorenson's article stressing the continued importance of blogs and how they likely contributed to Time Magazine's recent Person of the Year...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 9:18 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: global warming
Senator Inhofe is up to his global warming denialist shenanigans again, and this time the target is a children's book.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 7:31 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: stem cells
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: blogosphere
Yes, it's true. I've been called a "budding Matt Drudge." In a post on the recent Nature science blog rankings, The Tech Chronicles wrote: And Nick Anthis is a budding Matt Drudge. His revelations about a NASA official who was...
Posted by Nick Anthis at 5:40 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: evolution
Today, the Interacademy Panel on International Issues (IAP), an organization of 92 scientific academies from around the globe, released a statement endorsing the importance of teaching evolution as a fundamental scientific principle. The IAP emphasizes several uncontested evolutionary facts and stresses the need to teach science as a means of describing nature through a process of inquiry, fundamentally built upon the formulation of testable and refutable hypothesis.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 8:24 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: bioterrorism
The Guardian reports today that is was recently able to purchase a 78-nucleotide sequence of DNA based on the small pox genome and that it was able to get the supplier to mail it to a residential address. The article is alarmist and sensational, but it raises an issue that in general has probably not been given enough thought.
Posted by Nick Anthis at 4:53 AM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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