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Correlation vs Causation
From xkcd: In April, I took a micro course called “Scientist as Citizen,” which is basically a workshop for scientists who want to know about interacting with the public, specifically through...
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This is Good Science Journalism
Jonah Lehrer has a great article in the NYT magazine about depression and some recent research that suggests it may have some benefits. If depression was a disorder, then evolution had made a tragic...
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Are Scientists Bad at PR?
From global warming to evolution to vaccine safety, the public consistently (and sometimes increasingly) doesn’t know or doesn’t believe the scientific consensus. A new piece in Wired magazine claims...
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Should Scientists Blog?
Considering the forum, you can probably guess my answer, but it seems the editors at Nature agree… sort of: Institutions need to recognize and to encourage such outreach explicitly — not just as a...
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Everything’s “Contaminated”
A while back I heard an NPR story about bacteria growing in reusable grocery bags, and now there’s a piece from WaPo’s health blog about bacteria fround on 3-D glasses you get at movie theaters: In its...
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Woo, cancer, and human Fallacy.
I have a friend that has ovarian cancer. She was diagnosed a little over 2 years ago, but the doctors hadn’t been looking for it. She was only 23, with no family history of cancer, and then it showed...
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246 Trillion people
According to CNN’s homepage, that’s how many people shared this article about Stephen Hawking’s new book. Just a brief snippet of The Grand Design was released to generate buzz and considering that...
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Splitting the Difference
It’s no secret I love science, but sometimes the conclusions arrived at by science go against the grain of personal experience and conventional wisdom. When it does, many people are unwilling to...
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Thanks for making my point, Nature
Back in July I wrote about an editorial published in Nature about the future of science communication and what place blogs had in that future. Though I agreed with them that blogs are a great resource,...
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Reading between the lines
Have you ever used one of those Dyson Airblade hand driers? I’ve used them at SFO and even in some restaurant bathrooms, and I have to admit, they’re pretty neat. Whether or not they’re actually better...
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