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Politics, Communication and Unscientific America

As I’ve been preparing my formal review of Unscientific America I’ve been struck by the question: who was this book intended for? Clearly it was a critique of science communicators to be sure (more on...

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Rebranding Science: Unscientific America Values Style Over Substance

“They say rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don’t mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.” - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops? In...

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The Primate Diaries Was Selected for The Open Laboratory

   The Open Laboratory?! You’re kidding? Woo hoo!!!!!!!!My post for Nature Network, Male Chauvinist Chimps or the Meat Market of Public Opinion? has been selected for this year’s Open Laboratory as an...

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Highlights from ScienceOnline2010 – From Blog to Book

This past weekend I was in Durham, North Carolina (my old stomping grounds) attending the annual ScienceOnline Conference that focuses on science communication in the digital age. I am pleased to...

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Highlights from ScienceOnline2010 – Rebooting Science Journalism

2. Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (description here): Sciblings Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science and David Dobbs of Neuron Culture as well as the author of Reef Madness and the...

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An Open History of Science – ScienceOnline2010 (#scio10)

This is the brief presentation I gave on Saturday, Jan. 16 as part of this year’s ScienceOnline conference. I was thrilled to have PZ Myers, Greg Laden and Janet Stemwedel present (the latter of whom...

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The Huffington Post Publishes the Craziest Things

Here at ScienceBlogs we regularly take The Huffington Post down a notch by pointing out such cutting edge lunacy as vaccine denialism or pseudoscientific spiritualism masquerading as health advice. Now...

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How To Report the News

Many of us self-styled journalists and bloggers lack formal training in what news reporting is really all about. Fortunately Charlie Brooker at BBC4 has this helpful report that can make even the...

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Haiti: Time To Build a Just Society

       Image: Gideon Mendel / The GuardianJournalist William Fisher of the Inter Press Service News Agency has just used my recent work on Haiti for his story on the need for transparency and equality...

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Huffington Post Is Afraid of Criticism From Their Own Writers

At ScienceBlogs we value our independence. Just consider the recent posts over the laughable PepsiCo nutrition blog to see how seriously people take this. But one thing that would never happen is for...

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