Check Me Out on Live TV This Friday
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 abroadPosted on July 23, 2008 6:45 PM • 0 Comments •
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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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- Why Are Veins Blue? (17 Apr 08)
- Metric System (Apparently) a Plot by Liberal Communist Anti-American Immigrants (13 Oct 07)
- Bush Administration Muzzled Surgeon General (11 Jul 07)
- A Sun Ray a Day.... (19 Jun 07)
- Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (23 Mar 07)
- A Shocking Decrease in Funding of NIH Grants (12 Sep 06)
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- Cloning - Who Cares? (10 Jul 06)
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- Oxford Scientists Bite Back at Animal Rights Activists (26 Feb 06)
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- George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A&M University (06 Feb 06)
- Caught in the Line of Fire: Animal Rights Activists Take Over Oxford (15 Jan 06)
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- Gender imbalance in math scores disappears - Hot Air
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- Is Middle Eastern Politics Creeping Into Science? - Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
- Global Stem Cell Forum in China Showcases Cutting Edge Research ... - Genetic Engineering News (press release)
- Republicans block effort to subpoena global warming documents - Los Angeles Times
- Harvard stem cell research gets boost - Boston Globe
- NASA at 50 Many happy returns? - Economist
- Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine" Set Up ... - MedIndia
- House Agrees to Lift HIV Travel Ban - MedPage Today
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It's Getting a Little Hotter in Here
I'm starting to feel a little less guilty about my negative review of Sizzle.Posted on July 16, 2008 4:55 PM • 14 Comments •
A Shout-Out From CJR
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 • 0 Comments •
Fact-Checking The Washington Post's Claims About Its Role in Unearthing the 2006 NASA Censorship Scandal
It doesn't live up to its own standard on this one.Posted on June 5, 2008 6:25 PM • 1 Comments •
Just Like Old Times....
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 • 1 Comments •
Best Headline Ever: "Creature from Hell Promises Salvation"
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 • 3 Comments •
Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Over; Thousands of Researchers Now Jobless
The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.Posted on November 21, 2007 7:54 PM • 22 Comments •
The Bush Legacy: Lowered Expectations
At least Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns didn't do anything warranting a jail sentence.Posted on September 21, 2007 6:01 AM • 0 Comments •
Jay Rosen: Blogs Do Quality Reporting Too
A detailed list of some of the high-impact reporting done by blogsPosted on August 23, 2007 7:30 AM • 5 Comments •
Barack Obama: Not Waffling on Cuba
He calls for bilateral talks and unrestricted Cuban American visitation and remittance rights.Posted on August 21, 2007 4:50 PM • 2 Comments •
Global Warming Denialism at Its Best
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 • 13 Comments •
Free NYTimes Select for University Students and Faculty
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 • 1 Comments •
A Credulous Media Response to Bush's Climate Change Plan
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 • 5 Comments •
Loaded Language in Media Coverage of Embryonic Stem Cells
"Destroying human embryos" is not an objective description of stem cell research!Posted on May 9, 2007 5:04 PM • 15 Comments •
Where's Obama?... Again
Yahoo News joins CNN in confusing Obama and Osama.Posted on January 4, 2007 5:03 PM • 0 Comments •
A Shout Out for The Scientific Activist
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 • 1 Comments •
The Next Target for Global Warming Denialists: Children's Books
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 • 0 Comments •
Progress of Stem Cell Bill, and Its Media Coverage, Still Plagued by Problems
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 • 1 Comments •
The Next Matt Drudge?
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 • 0 Comments •
World's Science Academies Endorse Teaching of Evolution (Duh!)
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 • 2 Comments •
The Guardian Is Able to Purchase Part of the Smallpox Genome
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 • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
