A More Reality-Based Poll
Category: media
The Washington Post gets it right, pointing out that Tea Partiers make up only about 2% of the general population.
Posted on: May 6, 2010 9:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
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This Is a Very Dumb Poll
Category: media
The New York Times hints that its new poll reveals stunning new truths about the Tea Party movement, but in reality it tells us almost nothing.
Posted on: April 14, 2010 9:33 PM, by Nick Anthis • 12 Comments •
It's Getting Kind of Hot Out There....
Category: global warming
As a record-breaking April heat wave hits Washington, DC, one has to wonder: where are all of those climate skeptics who so recently pounced on Snowmageddon as "evidence" against global warming?
Posted on: April 6, 2010 10:09 PM, by Nick Anthis • 20 Comments •
Check Out Meredith on TV This Sunday!
Category: media
Sunday, January 10th, at 10 pm on the Smithsonian Channel: "Zoo Vets: Claws, Paws, and Fins"
Posted on: January 8, 2010 9:07 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Health Care Reform: It's a Matter of Convenience
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 on: October 12, 2009 10:41 PM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Where to Find Reliable Information on Swine Flu
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 on: May 2, 2009 11:26 AM, by Nick Anthis • 9 Comments •
Report Calls for Stricter Regulation of Medical Conflicts of Interest
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 on: April 29, 2009 9:54 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
More on Today's Revkin Article
Category: media
"He said, she said" journalism enabled industry-sponsored global warming denialism.
Posted on: April 24, 2009 11:46 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
George Will Seriously Needs to Check His Sources
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 on: April 2, 2009 10:55 AM, by Nick Anthis • 13 Comments •
Strange Bedfellows
Category: blogosphere
An ironic juxtaposition
Posted on: March 29, 2009 7:31 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Some Unfounded Alarmism Regarding Compact Fluorescent Lamps
Category: media
An article in yesterday's New York Times relies exclusively on anecdotal evidence.
Posted on: March 28, 2009 8:17 AM, by Nick Anthis • 49 Comments •
"[She] treated her last flu with castoff amoxicillin."
Category: media
Can you spot the stupidity?
Posted on: February 18, 2009 1:15 PM, by Nick Anthis • 11 Comments •
Where Is This "Cult of Darwinism" I've Been Hearing So Much About?
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 on: February 10, 2009 5:05 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Check Me Out on Live TV This Friday
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 on: July 23, 2008 6:45 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
It's Getting a Little Hotter in Here
Category: movies
I'm starting to feel a little less guilty about my negative review of Sizzle.
Posted on: July 16, 2008 4:55 PM, by Nick Anthis • 14 Comments •
A Shout-Out From CJR
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 on: June 9, 2008 6:22 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Fact-Checking The Washington Post's Claims About Its Role in Unearthing the 2006 NASA Censorship Scandal
Category: media
It doesn't live up to its own standard on this one.
Posted on: June 5, 2008 6:25 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Just Like Old Times....
Category: Election 2008
I'm quoted in a story today in my alma mater's student paper on candidates using social networking sites.
Posted on: February 5, 2008 11:27 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Best Headline Ever: "Creature from Hell Promises Salvation"
Category: biology
Researchers discover methane-metabolizing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments and may have implications for global warming.
Posted on: November 22, 2007 6:25 PM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Over; Thousands of Researchers Now Jobless
Category: stem cells
The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.
Posted on: November 21, 2007 7:54 PM, by Nick Anthis • 22 Comments •
The Bush Legacy: Lowered Expectations
Category: Bush Administration
At least Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns didn't do anything warranting a jail sentence.
Posted on: September 21, 2007 6:01 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Jay Rosen: Blogs Do Quality Reporting Too
Category: blogosphere
A detailed list of some of the high-impact reporting done by blogs
Posted on: August 23, 2007 7:30 AM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Barack Obama: Not Waffling on Cuba
Category: Barack Obama
He calls for bilateral talks and unrestricted Cuban American visitation and remittance rights.
Posted on: August 21, 2007 4:50 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Global Warming Denialism at Its Best
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 on: August 11, 2007 1:54 PM, by Nick Anthis • 13 Comments •
Free NYTimes Select for University Students and Faculty
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 on: June 4, 2007 12:17 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
A Credulous Media Response to Bush's Climate Change Plan
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 on: June 3, 2007 7:31 PM, by Nick Anthis • 5 Comments •
Loaded Language in Media Coverage of Embryonic Stem Cells
Category: stem cells
"Destroying human embryos" is not an objective description of stem cell research!
Posted on: May 9, 2007 5:04 PM, by Nick Anthis • 15 Comments •
Where's Obama?... Again
Category: media
Yahoo News joins CNN in confusing Obama and Osama.
Posted on: January 4, 2007 5:03 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
A Shout Out for The Scientific Activist
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 on: December 29, 2006 9:18 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
The Next Target for Global Warming Denialists: Children's Books
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 on: October 3, 2006 7:31 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Progress of Stem Cell Bill, and Its Media Coverage, Still Plagued by Problems
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 on: July 8, 2006 8:00 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
The Next Matt Drudge?
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 on: July 6, 2006 5:40 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
World's Science Academies Endorse Teaching of Evolution (Duh!)
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 on: June 21, 2006 8:24 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
The Guardian Is Able to Purchase Part of the Smallpox Genome
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 on: June 14, 2006 4:53 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
