Over at What's New in Life Science Research, I have some thoughts about the misperceptions surrounding cloning. Head on over, and keep Our Benevolent Seed Overlords happy.
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The New Scientist has published a handy guide, rounding up 26 of the most common myths and misperceptions in climate science.
Alun Salt will be leading a session about the Peer-to-peer publishing and the creative process, i.e., publishing papers on blogs at the Classical Association conference at Birmingham so he has writ
The FTC has piled on Airborne, one of the most annoying consumer scams in the market. The vitamin pill was advertised to prevent colds. And it was created by a teacher! But the FTC concluded:
Two weekend days with sun? NEVAH! Let's celebrate with some links. Science:
I think your URL is missing a ".php" on the end, Mike. It ought to go here.
Paul Krugman has said that contrarians are a sham. Then, to make matters worse for the word, wiki claims that there is a special usage in science that is different from ordinary usage. We are left to infer when we are "in science" and when not.
So after reading about the word I thought that "in science" a contrarian must be a global warming denier. Lo, here on science blogs, surely "in science" we have the word used for a skeptic who says "on the contrary" which is the old and ordinary usage.