An Intellectual Dichotomy at the New York Times

The home of a paper of record and a website of crap.

The New York Times kindled a love of science in me at an early age.  My parents, at the time, were trying to get me to a place where I would actually read the paper.  I was more of a comic books and… [...]

Clustered datapoints indicate non-environmental causes of autism

An excellent report aired on NPR this week in reference to a terrific study that just came out of UC Davis. This study, led by biostatisticians (these researchers produce the most trustworthy numbers in science) looked at a whole suite of environmental products frequently maligned as causes of autism. Their results indicate that neither household [...]

Age of Projectionism

The anti-vaccination quacks at Age of Autism (AoA) decided that instead of addressing individual refutations from the bloggers coming out of the incredibly successful Scienceblogs, that they’d just launch one big ad hominem attack on the entire site. As always, don’t expect them to include any actual science in their rants. They don’t understand it [...]

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