Category Archives: science

Finding time for fun: The Sabeti Lab goes Gangnam Style

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2013

Category: Journalism, science | Tagged Gangnam Style, MIT, Pardis Sabeti, Smithsonian | 1 Comment

The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 14, 2012

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 | 7 Comments

Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 25, 2012

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 | 25 Comments

Has the Huffington Post embraced science & closed the door on anti-vaccine quackery?

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 5, 2012

Category: Autism, Media, Public health, science, Vaccines | Tagged David Kirby, Huffington Post, Jay Gordon, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, Kim Stagliano, Orac, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Scientific American | 46 Comments

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

SciWriteLabs #4, in which Alistair Dove argues that bad science inevitably gets “overwritten” by good science…and I point out on all the harm that can happen in the meantime

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: October 30, 2011

Category: Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alan Dove, Alistair Dove, Ananyo Bhattacharya, arsenic life, Deep Sea News, MMR, Nature, Rosie Redfield, The Daily Beast, The Panic Virus, This Week in Virology, Twitter, University of Michigan, vaccines | 1 Comment

SciWriteLabs #3: TWiV co-hosts on arrogance vs. accountability

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: October 21, 2011

Category: Journalism, Media, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Alan Dove, MIT, This Week in Virology, Trine Tsouderos, Vincent Racaniello | 1 Comment

SciWriteLabs #2: Reuters’ Ivan Oransky and Wired’s Adam Rogers on sources v. subjects & more on the factchecking debate

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: October 20, 2011

Category: Journalism, science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged Adam Rogers, David Kroll, Embargo Watch, factchecking, Ivan Oransky, NYU, Rebecca Skloot, Retraction Watch, Reuters, SHERP, Vincent Racaniello, Wikipedia, Wired | 4 Comments

Category Archives: science

Finding time for fun: The Sabeti Lab goes Gangnam Style

The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time

Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world

Has the Huffington Post embraced science & closed the door on anti-vaccine quackery?

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

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

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

SciWriteLabs #4, in which Alistair Dove argues that bad science inevitably gets “overwritten” by good science…and I point out on all the harm that can happen in the meantime

SciWriteLabs #3: TWiV co-hosts on arrogance vs. accountability

SciWriteLabs #2: Reuters’ Ivan Oransky and Wired’s Adam Rogers on sources v. subjects & more on the factchecking debate

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