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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 [...] 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… [...] Published by The Penguin Press, 2009 First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who contributed to our discussion last week on atheism and skepticism. I think it’s fantastic that we have a community in which we can talk about these things. I want to give a special thanks to Michael De Dora for agreeing [...] Natural Hemlock, much better than the fake stuff. Still feeling flushed from my article last week about a potential change in how science news was reported, I was caught, almost unaware, by a story from a California NBC affiliate titled, “Can Natural Remedies Prevent H1N1?” Since they’d posed it as a question, I felt certain [...] Simple schematic of a Helium atom with its two electrons. According to the Pew study, only 46% of those surveyed answered correctly that an atom is larger than an electron. Preamble Howard Schneider, founding dean of the Stony Brook University School of Journalism, speaks at NECSS (photo by Larry Auerbach) My post on Monday addressed Dr. Paul Offit’s lecture on the anti-vaccination movement and how I felt that, even though the lecture was interesting in it’s own right, it was information already widely disseminated throughout the [...] You’ve probably already heard about Jaycee Lee Dugard, the now 29 year old woman who’d been held kidnapped, raped repeatedly, and become a mother twice over the past eighteen years. It’s astounding that Miss Dugard has been found alive, I’m sure I speak for all of the New York City Skeptics when I say that [...] |
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