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Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition - Abstract
Situationist contributor Dan Kahan, Donald Braman, John Gastil, Situationist contributor Paul Slovic, and C.K. Mertz, posted their fascinating paper, “Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: … more →
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The Baloney Detection Kit
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estherar wrote 4 months ago: I’m not a huge fan of Dawkins, but I found this video from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for … more →
How can you mend a broken trust?
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estherar wrote 6 months ago: A new article in PLoS Biology discusses the vaccines/autism controversy from a anthropological/psych … more →
How science gets (mis)reported
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estherar wrote 6 months ago: Excellently summed up by PhD Comics. (Click on the thumbnail to get to the original) … more →
The allure of biomedical treaments for autism
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estherar wrote 6 months ago: A comment on an earlier post of mine by a woman named Lisa, who has a 5-year-old son with autism, le … more →
They say this about every generation.
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estherar wrote 6 months ago: But are today’s kids, perhaps, the rudest, most spoiled generation in history – all than … more →
You know it's serious...
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estherar wrote 6 months ago: when the world’s most prestigious medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine (known … more →
Consumer Reports: The new Motrin?
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estherar wrote 7 months ago: Wonderingwilla emailed me a couple of days back with this link to a recent Consumer Reports article … more →
Pacifiers: they don't suck as much as you thought
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estherar wrote 7 months ago: It’s no secret that APers don’t like pacifiers. Besides the fact that they’re made … more →
The (not quite) anti-CIO poster child: Macall Gordon, Part II
estherar wrote 7 months ago: This is a continuation of my previous post, which analyzes the claims brought up in this poster by M … more →
The (not quite) anti-CIO poster child: Macall Gordon, Part I
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estherar wrote 7 months ago: I’ve been aware of this poster for a while now. Macall Gordon, an ‘academic’ (at t … more →
California, here they come...
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estherar wrote 7 months ago: Measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and a host of other goodies. All courtesy of doctors like Dr. Ja … more →
Observational data - far from worthless
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estherar wrote 8 months ago: I’ve been following a discussion about CIO (crying it out) pros and cons over at iVillage that … more →
How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer
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JBBC wrote 9 months ago: This provocative, headline grabbing piece of “journalism” appeared in today’s Da … more →
risky?-are you kidding me?
aliekat55 wrote 9 months ago: People’s perception of risk is so bad ( insert joke here). I routinely have to work with someo … more →
This ought to be interesting.
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estherar wrote 10 months ago: Largest study of US child health begins: WASHINGTON – Scientists begin recruiting mothers-to-be in N … more →
Please tell me this is a fairy tale...
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estherar wrote 10 months ago: Once upon a time, in a far away land called Yoo-Kay, a parenting website polled 3,000 mothers about … more →
Free-range kid meets the LIRR...
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estherar wrote 10 months ago: Remember Izzy, son of columnist Lenore Skenazy and the free-range kid who was allowed to go home all … more →
Denial's Due: Christine Maggiore, dead at 52
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estherar wrote 10 months ago: Christine Maggiore, the HIV-positive AIDS denialist whose daughter died from AIDS-related pneumonia, … more →
Shit that happens, and some that really, really shouldn't
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estherar wrote 11 months ago: Two incidents germane to this blog are currently keeping our local press busy this past week. I woul … more →
