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Measles Outbreak – Who Saw That Coming?!
Andrew Wakefield, supported by scientific ignorance at the reactionary media, firstly in the UK and then across the world, fabricates data to promote a personal agenda. He destroys his own credibility… more →
2012 And All That... The Fight Against Nonsense
Pillock Paxman
wrote 1 day ago: Jeremy Paxman can be quite the pillock. Tim Peake, the British astronaut who is due to spend six mon … more →
Measles Outbreak - Who Saw That Coming?!
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wrote 1 month ago: Andrew Wakefield, supported by scientific ignorance at the reactionary media, firstly in the UK and … more →
Petition for scientific integrity
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wrote 4 months ago: Apologies for my atrocious posting schedule on this blog but as the world did not end on December 21 … more →
Farewell to a great man: Sir Patrick Moore
wrote 5 months ago: Tributes are being paid to Sir Patrick Moore on the news of his death, aged 89. Sir Patrick Moore … more →
The Leveson inquiry and its implications for science reporting.
wrote 5 months ago: After the Leveson inquiry, what future for science coverage? asks The Guardian. The Leveson Inquiry, … more →
Ben Goldacre's new book now out
wrote 6 months ago: Damn, has it really been two months since I posted anything to this blog? Apologies for being so sla … more →
Climate Denialist myth series – #7 'They' predicted Global Cooling in the 1970s!
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wrote 11 months ago: A small handful of papers predicted global cooling and most of them were co-written by the same pers … more →
Warning: Reading this could increase blood pressure by 50%
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wrote 1 year ago: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” – Benjamin Dis … more →
Science journalists and the papers they don't read
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wrote 1 year ago: Should science journalists read the papers on which their stories are based? asks asks James Randers … more →
Why the media screws up science - potholer
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wrote 1 year ago: Potholer is a youtube vlogger with many fascinating and informative videos on science and science in … more →
Rick Mercer: PMO Pest Control
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wrote 1 year ago: When our current Federal Government isn’t trying to eliminate Environment Canada (or at least … more →
Just for fun: Parody news article
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wrote 1 year ago: A funny article from The Guardian here. This is a news website article about a scientific paper In t … more →
Under the Eyes of the Buddha 2 – Traveling South
wrote 1 year ago: The latest film documenting our fieldwork and research in Thailand has just been finished and the DV … more →
Science, Technology and Innovation
wrote 1 year ago: Week Ten Media provides a link between science and the community, however scientists need to be able … more →
Googling your genes: personal genomics and the discourse of citizen bioscience in the network age
wrote 3 years ago: by Marina Levina Journal of Science Communication, 22/03/2010 In this essay, I argue that the rise o … more →
Bad Science: the missing index
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wrote 4 years ago: Bad Science by Ben Goldacre is probably the finest book published last year. But it has one big flaw … more →
