Monthly Archives: November 2011

Get your free copy of The Panic Virus (and check out the National Press Foundation’s Vaccine Webinar, too!)

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 22, 2011

Category: Housekeeping, Media, The Panic Virus, Vaccines | Tagged National Press Foundation, Nigeria, Peg Willingham, The UN Foundation | Leave a comment

Tomorrow night: Virtually Speaking Science with Tom Levenson — Live on radio … and Second Life

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 15, 2011

Category: Media appearance | Tagged Baghdad, BlogTalkRadio, Einstein in Berlin, Graduate Program in Science Writing, Meta Institute for Computational Analysis, MIT, Newton and the Counterfeiter, SciWriteLabs, Second Life, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Thomas Levenson | 5 Comments

Today’s Twitter chat with “Here is a Human Being” author Misha Angrist…Storified!

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 11, 2011

Category: Storify, Twitter | Tagged Canada, Carl Elliott, David Kroll, factchecking, fluoride, genetically modified crops, genomes, Here Is a Human Being, Janet Malcolm, Joe McGinness, meth labs, Michael Kinsley, Misha Angrist, pertussis, SciO12, Sea Cow, The Panic Virus, vaccines | Leave a comment

Here is a Twitter chat…with Misha Angrist

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 11, 2011

Category: Housekeeping, Twitter | Tagged Misha Angrist, Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Twitter | Leave a comment

SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 10, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs, Vaccine safety, Vaccines | 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 | 19 Comments

SciWriteLabs #5.2: Bhattacharya returns! The MMR debacle and why peer review is no substitute for penetrative reporting

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 10, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alistair Dove, Ananyo Bhattacharya, Cardiff University, genetically modified crops, measles, MMR, Nature, peer review, The Guardian, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, vaccines | 3 Comments

SciWriteLabs #5.1: Nature’s Ananyo Bhattacharya on “Bad Science,” inverted pyramids, and information webs

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 7, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alan Dove, Ananyo Bhattacharya, Andrew Wakefield, Association of British Science Writers, Ben Goldacre, Brendan Maher, David Kroll, Ed Yong, Ivan Oransky, Martin Robbins, MMR, Nature, Reuters, The Guardian, Vincent Racaniello | 5 Comments