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scientificactivistprofile.gif 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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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...

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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...

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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...

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More on Today's Revkin Article

Category: media

"He said, she said" journalism enabled industry-sponsored global warming denialism.

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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

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Strange Bedfellows

Category: blogosphere

An ironic juxtaposition

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Some Unfounded Alarmism Regarding Compact Fluorescent Lamps

Category: media

An article in yesterday's New York Times relies exclusively on anecdotal evidence.

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"[She] treated her last flu with castoff amoxicillin."

Category: media

Can you spot the stupidity?

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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

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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

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Over; Thousands of Researchers Now Jobless

Category: stem cells

The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.

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The Bush Legacy: Lowered Expectations

Category: Bush Administration

At least Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns didn't do anything warranting a jail sentence.

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Jay Rosen: Blogs Do Quality Reporting Too

Category: blogosphere

A detailed list of some of the high-impact reporting done by blogs

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Barack Obama: Not Waffling on Cuba

Category: Barack Obama

He calls for bilateral talks and unrestricted Cuban American visitation and remittance rights.

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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...

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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....

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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.

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Loaded Language in Media Coverage of Embryonic Stem Cells

Category: stem cells

"Destroying human embryos" is not an objective description of stem cell research!

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Where's Obama?... Again

Category: media

Yahoo News joins CNN in confusing Obama and Osama.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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