The 2007 Weblog Award finalists have just been announced, but for some reason, the list does not include links to the blogs. So here are the finalists in the Best Science Blogs category:
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I'm surprised to see Pharyngula has been nominated for Best Science Blog in The 2007 Weblog Awards — I hadn't been paying attention at all. I am a bit disturbed by the company I'm keeping over there, though: I'm in the running with a couple of conservative junk science blogs. Go vote for one of the…
The finalists have been announced ina number of categories. Of special interest, of course, are these two categories:
Best Science Blog
Pharyngula
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
RealClimate
Deltoid
Good Math, Bad Math
Mixing Memory
The Panda's Thumb
In the Pipeline
Bad Astronomy Blog
SciGuy
Best…
As Bora notes, the 2006 Weblog Award nominees have been announced and there are some startlingly familiar names:
Best Science Blog
PharyngulaJohn Hawks Anthropology WeblogRealClimateDeltoidGood Math, Bad MathMixing Memory The Panda's ThumbIn the PipelineBad Astronomy BlogSciGuy
Best Medical/Health…
Amazing.
I didn't actually expect this, but it appears that some knuckleheads have actually nominated Respectful Insolence again for the Best Medical/Health Issues Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards, and, even more oddly, I somehow managed to be finalist. It turns out that P.Z. Myers is also a…
Interesting list....as are the other lists...
Also, Orac is in the Medical category.
And the junk science junkscience.com site is listed here as a contender. Makes one wonder if the prize is worth having if lunatics are allowed to compete too. Here are some of the salient aspects of this site from http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_Milloy. To whit - the site's creator is just another random industry whore paid to shill for the petromafia.
Steven J. Milloy is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute.
Milloy is a crank and a junk scientist. His website name is oddly appropriate. Climate Audit is another junkscience site, run by McIntyre of "I corrected a climate record therefore all climate science is wrong" fame.
I can not believe either of these is in consideration, if you ask me the award is meaningless.
Steve McIntyre and Climate Audit are promoting far more serious science than you can imagine. Read his postings before you judge. He simply wants to see proper scientific methods used: proper data collection, documentation, selection, analysis, and data availability. I.e., show your work, and do it right.
It ain't happening, folks. Anyone who cares about GOOD science should be supportive of ClimateAudit's work. This is not about politics, it's about good science!
Some of the comments and commenters at Climate Audit get pretty old after a while, but I wouldn't put McIntyre in the same category as Milloy...that guy is a complete crank and he knows it. In fact, he plays off of it. Calling his site junkscience is classic doublespeak...diabolical.
Some of these blogs cover hot-button scientifcally-related issues...something that makes for sensational reading (i.e., PZ's posts)...this competition is a popularity contest. I'm sure the PZ's and McIntyre's loyalists are voting as much as is technically possible. When they win...then what?
The awards voting page seems to be getting hammered by traffic at the moment, but if you don't want to vote for junk science, please check out Sciencebase as a contender
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