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Even if you haven’t yet read Time’s new article, Who’s Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?, I bet most of you have answered the question already. The author, Karl Taro Greenfeld, is no stranger to the issue of autism and wrote a book about his autistic brother. While the article takes a hard-line on McCarthy’s belief that [...] I received an interesting response to what I thought would be a light topic when, on Friday, I wrote a critique of the HuffPo’s reporting on two stories that were unrelated to each other. I was in error to broach the subject of neonatal male circumcision in such a glib manner when obviously it is [...] (For further discussion please read the continuation here.) No this is not a new game akin to 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon. Unlike Sarah Palin, I don’t read “all” periodicals, but I have a few favorites… the HuffPo is not one of them. Their editorials tend to come off as tirades by individuals who like to hear themselves talk… type… whatever. [...] I don’t usually write a post that solely tells you to read another blog post, but in the strange case of Desiree Jennings, Steve Novella has become something of a primary reference. I recommend his post on this case penned at Neurologica. Desiree, if you will recall, was the young woman who presented with a mysterious [...] Several days ago, I came across a link to a web forum hosted by Dorothy M. Murdock, also known as D.M. Murdock, but far better known as Acharya S. For those who aren’t familiar with the name, Acharya S is an author and proponent of the Christ myth theory. But while numerous historians [...] I’m getting old. The less than obvious indicators of this are that I now prefer to listen to NPR on road trips, rather than blasting music, and I find myself oddly entranced by the Olympics, two activities the younger me felt were distinctly boring. Along with watching the Olympics is a growing appreciation of the [...] Choices, choices! How are you going to celebrate February 12th, the 201st anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 151st of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Here are a couple of suggestions. Attend the Darwin Day event sponsored by NYC Skeptics for an opportunity to participate in a fascinating conversation between Massimo Pigliucci and [...] Like every other group of cranks, the anti-vaccine movement makes up for their total lack of supporting evidence with emotional appeals. They know that they can exploit a single vaccine injury (or even a bogus vaccine injury) to sell fear and that this is far more persuasive than statistical data looking [...] Just in case you haven’t heard, a UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel found sufficient evidence to suggest “serious professional misconduct” on the part of Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues, who published the very first paper that insinuated a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. Further, The Lancet has retracted the original [...] Well, we did it! The first episode of Rationally Speaking, the podcast, is out and available both directly from our New York City Skeptics-sponsored web site and from the iTunes store. The second episode will come out [...] |
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