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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 #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