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Category Archives: Media
The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time
Category: Journalism, Media, science, science writing
Tagged ADHD, Ars Technica, autism, Bob Dylan, Brendan Maher, cancer, Cryptogenomicon, DNA, Ed Yong, Emily Willingham, ENCODE, Evolver Zone: Genomicron, Ewan Birney, Gizmodo, hookworms, JAMA, Jesus Diaz, John P.A. Ioannidis, John Timmer, Jonah Lehrer, Leonid Kruglyak, Mike White, Naomi Wolf, Nature, newspapers, PLOS ONE, Sean Eddy, T. Ryan Gregory, The Finch and the Pea, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vagina, Wired
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Edward Jay Epstein “submits that Fareed Zakaria is not guilty of plagiarism.” I submit that Epstein doesn’t understand what the word means.
Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media
Tagged Adam Winkler, CNN, Edward Jay Epstein, Fareed Zakaria, Jill Lepore, plagiarism, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Time
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SciWriteLabs 8.3: Adjudicating the Lehrer plagiarism accusations. Plus: Are we ignoring the truly frightening trends in journalism?*
Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media, SciWriteLabs
Tagged Arianna Huffington, Carl Zimmer, Chicago Tribune, David Quammen, Deborah Blum, Jack Shafer, Jane Jacobs, Jim Romenesko, Jonah Lehrer, Journatic, Lou Dobbs, Malcolm Gladwell, Oprah Winfrey, plagiarism, Salon.com, The New York Times, The New Yorker, This American Life, William Goldman
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TLC’s vaccine misinformation piece vanishes into the ether. Do they owe readers an explanation? (Also: Chicago Sun-Times endorsement of anti-vaccine conference remains online.) UPDATED
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines
Tagged Autism News Beat, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Discovery Communications, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Ken Reibel, TLC
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Major medical, science organizations prepare letter to TLC about its vaccine fear-mongering
Category: Autism, Media, Vaccines
Tagged American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Physician Assistants, Autism Science Foundation, Every Child By Two, National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, National Meningitis Association, Oregon Pediatric Society, Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, TLC, Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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UPDATE: Sun-Times endorsement of autism quackfest remains online even after editor claims it was “incorrect”
Category: Autism, Media, Quacks, Vaccine safety, Vaccines
Tagged Alisa Alexander, AutismOne, Chicago Sun-Times, Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Kirk, Jim Romenesko, Wrapports
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Autism roundtable, part 2
Category: Autism, Media, Public health
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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Public health, 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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