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Here are some links for you. Science firstest: Farah Babbles Incoherently About Fossils The "Phantom" of Heilbronn and Negative Controls (Or the Lack Thereof) Media distortion damages both science and journalism Other: Just When I Thought Texas Politics Couldn't Get Any Dumber Ask Not What You Can…
One of the by-products of the brouhaha (here, here) over The Atlantic article on vaccines was some interesting issues raised by the way the Knight Science Journalism Tracker handled it (here, here). If you aren't familiar with KSJ Tracker, it's a site that does "peer review" of science journalism.…
There's a new feature article by Liza Gross [1] up at PLoS Biology. Titled "A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine-Autism Wars," the article does a nice job illuminating how the themes of trust and accountability play out in interactions between researchers, physicians, patients, parents,…
Here are some links for you. Science firstest: But What If You Can't Afford To Stay Home? Pandemic Lotto H1N1: Why Do Schools Close, And When Do They Open? H1N1 flu: confirmed case counts Other: The Far Right's First 100 Days: Shifting Into Overdrive You don't need to eat a veggie burger to be…