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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.

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: August 13, 2012

Category: Ethics, Journalism, Media | Tagged Adam Winkler, CNN, Edward Jay Epstein, Fareed Zakaria, Jill Lepore, plagiarism, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Time | 8 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

Michelle Bachmann: Public health spokeswoman, Rick Perry strategist, partisan peace-maker

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: September 14, 2011

Category: Politics, Public health, Vaccines | Tagged Erick Erickson, Fox News, Gardasil, Greta Van Susteren, HPV, Kirsten Powers, Merck, Michael Specter, Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Mother Jones, NBC, New Yorker, RedState, Rick Perry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rolling Stone, Rush Limbaugh, Salon.com, The Daily Beast, The Today Show, Time, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment