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sethmnookin: 1st class Delta security line in Boston longer, w/fewer TSA agents. I guess some people would rather miss flight that mingle w/hoi polloi.
EmilyAnthes: The "Crack Baby" Epidemic That Wasn't http://t.co/Xr3H5AUSXV
TravisSaunders: Full text of very cool new paper posted to the #SBRN website http://t.co/vsrF3kuDB2
hillaryrosner: KFOR reporter choking up reporting that bodies of 24 third grader being pulled from elementary school in Moore, OK. http://t.co/JPiW0OARL6
stevesilberman: Helpful explainer: Why are tornadoes in OK so bad? http://t.co/dpXSzkuKXT
daniel_lende: RT @bjkingape: 8-yr-old girl asks 'Who invented clothes?'; archaeologist @LeMoustier offers her a serious, fine answer re prehistory http:/…
mfenner: RT @LSEImpactBlog: Impact factors declared unfit for duty, writes @stephen_curry. More here on SF Declaration explicit disavowal of IFs htt…
MrEpid: "There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things" - a great line with which to end The Office. Thanks for the memories.
BethSkw: Pittsburgh driving: the Fort Pitt bridge laughs in the face of GPS, and out-of-towners. https://t.co/O7FhMhwBHy
Jason_Reads: RT @LOLGOP: The Oklahoma Red Cross is asking those who can to donate $10 by texting "Red Cross" to 90999. Thanks.
jeancflanagan: My new Sci-Ed piece on evolution education - Learning to read the tree of life - http://t.co/1njM6ML6Q0
Blog Archives
PLOS Blogger Seth Mnookin’s ‘The Panic Virus’ Receives 2012 Science in Society Book Award
Category: PLoS
Tagged NASW, National Association of Science Writers, PLOS Blog Network, Seth Mnookin, The Panic Virus
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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, ipad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines
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“Vigilante for truth”: An accurate headline…or shameless Twitter bait?
Category: Journalism, Media, The New York Times
Tagged Adam Liptak, Arthur Brisbane, autism, Clarence Thomas, public editor, The Panic Virus, twitter, vaccines, vigilantes
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LATimes on the autism “epidemic”: “more a surge in diagnosis than in disease”
Category: Autism, Media
Tagged Ben Goldacre, British Medical Journal, CDC, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The Panic Virus, Wall Street Journal
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SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards
Category: Media, Science, SciWriteLabs, Vaccine safety
Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, British Medical Journal, Daily Mail, David Lewis, Ingvar Bjarnason, measles, Melanie Phillips, MMR, Molecular Pathology, nature, Pace University, paul offit, Peer review, Private Eye, research oversight boards, Richard Horton, Royal Free Hospital, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, University College London
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Welcome to MITSciWrite
Category: Announcements, Housekeeping
Tagged Knight Fellowship, MIT, SciWriteLabs, STS, The Panic Virus
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