The research showing that vaccines cause autism is a deliberate hoax, but the arsenic bug tale is self-correcting science. Also, blogger list, top 2010 stories list, Science Online 2011 (#SciO11)
Does Jonah Lehrer's New Yorker piece hurt science? Plus yet another week of the arsenic bug and the spotlight it shines on science writing. Plus blogs as newspapers-of-record.
Last week's news: The bacterium that substitutes arsenic for phosphorus is not, after all, from outer space. This week's news: Many scientists doubt that the bug is even very good at substituting arsenic for phosphorus.
Aliens abduct bloggers! Or did bloggers abduct aliens? And did you hear, they all ate arsenic at a NASA press conference! Anyway, things are a bit better for HIV infection and AIDS.
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media has a two-part series on leading climate scientists’ and science journalists’ “Lessons Learned” from the climate change controversies of the past 12 months.
Scientists world-wide collaborated on observing coral reefs and analyzing satellite data to determine the extent of coral bleaching. It isn't a pretty picture.
Dr. Jennifer Shine Dyer thought she was pushing the envelope when she moved her practice from fax to email communication. Then her patients told her, “email is for old people.” Dr. Dyer’s story of reaching teenage diabetics through a little creativity and a lot of Facebook and Twitter is an inspired look at the future of medicine.
President Nancy Shute called the meeting to order at 8:15 AM.
It's all brain all the time at the Society for Neuroscience. Celebrities and the brain. Female orgasm and What Women Want: The truth about premature ejaculation. Plus oxytocin, grad students, optogenetics, jet lag, and improving memory.
