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SciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2012
Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged academic journals, Amy Harmon, Amy Wallace, Asperger syndrome, Boston, Catherine Lord, CDC, DNA, Eric Courchesne, Eric Fombonne, footnotes, Fred Volkmar, Gardner Museum, Gerald Fishbach, Jack Robison, Kevin Pelphrey, Kirsten Lindsmith, Los Angeles Times, Marianne English, McGill University, Michael Specter, MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NIMH, Simons Foundation, technology, The New Yorker, UC-San Diego Autism Center of Excellence, vaccines, Vanity Fair, Wired, Yale School of Medicine, Yale's Neuroscience Laboratory | 4 Comments

It really is bizarro day: Andrew Wakefield sues Brian Deer, BMJ

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 5, 2012
Category: Media, Vaccines | Tagged Amy Wallace, Andrew Wakefield, British Medical Journal, Fiona Godlee, Left Brain/Right Brain, Orac, Respectful Insolence, Sullivan | 15 Comments
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