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On ADHD and the practice of science journalism 3 Oct 2012 | 01:06 am
About two weeks ago, the journal PLoS ONE published an article titled "Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." A...
Amazon warfare: Stuffing the customer-review box 3 Oct 2012 | 12:10 am
Last week, Joya Banerjee published a distressing account at Slate of an anti-circumcision fringe group's efforts to bury a book about the AIDS epidemic under a pile of blistering customer reviews. It ...
Brian Vastag of The Washington Post reports on West Nile Virus infection--his own. 2 Oct 2012 | 11:46 pm
"So this," begins Brian Vastag at The Washington Post, "is what the 21st century feels like." On Aug. 22, I wrote here that this year's West Nile virus epidemic, the largest seen in the U.S., deserve...
Kehouflop Redux? Out near Saturn, a monster superbright comet! Maybe perhaps to outshine the Moon. Or not. 2 Oct 2012 | 11:09 pm
Well, gee whillikers, circle late November and early December 2013. The brightest most spectacular comet ever, as in ever, heading our way. There are real news stories along that general line, the goo...
Barry Commoner dies: Rounding up the obits 2 Oct 2012 | 07:41 pm
Barry Commoner was much better known in the 1960s and 1970s than now. Rachel Carson is remembered, but Commoner--who, in one writer's opinion, was more influential than Carson--is not remembered, exce...
Zimmer on science fraud: More common than it seemed 2 Oct 2012 | 01:32 am
Carl Zimmer is up on the web today at The New York Times, writing about a study that challenges the "comforting assumption" that scientific retractions are mostly due to honest error. The study's aut...
On the Media takes a look at science coverage 2 Oct 2012 | 12:25 am
A little more than a year ago, I wrote in these pages (these pixels?) that the public radio show On the Media was not paying much attention to science coverage. It covers Hollywood, and politics, and ...
A critical detail buried: Political scientists predict election outcome 1 Oct 2012 | 07:40 pm
Dan Balz of The Washington Post did an interesting story over the weekend, or so I thought initially. With all the polls showing a trend toward Obama, and the election only weeks away, what do politic...
The AP dissects the electoral college 29 Sep 2012 | 02:19 am
Seth Borenstein, a science writer at the AP who doesn't know enough to keep his scientific fingers out of politics, has written a clear, straightforward analysis of voting and the electoral college. W...
A bit of futurism from, of all places, Detroit 28 Sep 2012 | 08:38 pm
If you already know what you think about Detroit, Bill Morris's stories in Popular Mechanics will surprise you. The headline on one is "Detroit 2025: After the Recession, a City Reimagined," and the s...
