It's cold here. Warm up with some nice links. Science:
The National Science Foundation calls it "peer review" for a reason, Mr. Smith!
Imagine A World Where Aspergers Was The Norm
(Don't) Keep it Simple: Why a Culture of Journalism Isn't Working for Science
NIH study identifies ideal body mass index
Other:
There's no crying in baseball and, apparently, no laughing in football
John Brown's body
Freezing Out Hope
Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press
The corporate takeover of American schools: The trend for appointing CEOs to the top jobs is symptomatic of a declining commitment to public education and social justice
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It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science:
China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020
Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers"
On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffle
Collins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortof
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Kinda cold here. Let's warm up with some links. Science:
From the Trenches of the War on Science
Friday Beetle Blogging: A Stunning Staphylinid
Koalas bellow to attract a mate
Crocodile tears from experienced NIH investigators over the discontinued A2 revision
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I've frequently noted that one of the things most detested by quacks and promoters of pseudoscience is peer review. Creationists hate peer review. HIV/AIDS denialists hate it. Anti-vaccine cranks like those at Age of Autism hate it. Indeed, as blog bud Mark Hoofnagle Mark Hoofnagle, pointed out…
In the United States, the federal government has long had a prominent role in funding science research. Be it the $30 billion a year or so that funds the National Institutes of Health or the $5 or $6 billion a year allotted to the National Science Foundation, the government funds a lot of basic and…
That article on Wikileaks was interesting. It was a little teal deer for work, but I breezed through it because I had been thinking that it was a bit weird for the press to be assassinating Julian Assange's character like they have been. I thought the press would like him, because he gave them all this great material for stories but they seem to hate him. I figured maybe they were mad that he gave them so much stuff to have to read?