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Sheesh, you're offline for just one day...

By laelaps on March 20, 2008.



I had a feeling that other people were going to weigh in on Chris Mooney's latest article about "enablers" when I hit the "publish" button and shut down the computer yesterday afternoon, and I guess I was right. ERV, PZ, and Mark H have put forth their take on the article as well (ERV's comparison of Mooney 2006 and Mooney 2008 is a must-read).

For your further enjoyment, Bora collected a set of links about communicating science yesterday, and Blake was kind enough to provide another link to something I wrote out of frustration in relation to a post T. Ryan Gregory wrote.

I'd love to say more, but I've got to finish up setting my brand new computer (hooray!), although I hope to have something up later tonight about Richard Owen, T.H. Huxley, and what whiggish modern histories have done to the relationship between the two.

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