Blatantly inappropriate data analysis still counts as lying
BlogBrother Ethan Siegel just caught (yet another) scientist manipulating data to generate the conclusion they want… not the conclusion the data actually supports. Exposing a Climate Science Fraud...
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Realistic depiction of the scientific process
My favorite ‘artistic rendition’ of the scientific process, the only realistic depiction of what science is/how it is done on TV, is this montage from Big Bang Theory. This flow-chart is pretty damn...
View Article24 hours of absurdity in virology
The strangest things have happened in the past 24 hours. 1– New FDA approved clinical trial of anti-HIV vaccine YAY, right? Except I have no idea what the hell they are proposing to do in this clinical...
View Article‘Sense About Science’ slaughters celebrity silliness
Oh my gawd this is so fun! You know how we are always screaming online about some stupid thing Jenny McCarthy or Bill O’Reilly has said/done? A group of folks at Sense About Science have gotten...
View ArticleOklahoma senator concerned about dead babies in his Mountain Dew
Just, turn off your brain before you read this post, folks. If you try to to think about this, Im pretty sure your entire brain will hemorrhage, and I dont want to be responsible for that. You think I...
View ArticleFood woo bites the dust
I am not a ‘fan’ of dietary sensationalism. A can of Mountain Dew made with high fructose corn syrup once a week is not going to kill you. Megadoses of various vitamins and minerals is not going to...
View ArticleAlovasudden, SCIENCE!!!
I was just derping around at Cycle Gear this afternoon, when alovasudden, SCIENCE!!! Couple: *debating about what color helmet to buy – its summer, should they get the white/yellow one instead of...
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*squint* Not sure if revolutionary way to store vaccines and antibiotics, or...
Ed Yong has a post up discussing a potentially revolutionary way to store vaccines and antibiotics: Silk cages preserve vaccines and antibiotics for months without refrigeration Briefly, a lot of our...
View ArticleBad Idea of the Day: Halal Pharmaceuticals
One of the more amusing aspects of ‘You are only criticizing Islam because you are RACIST AGAINST MIDDLE-EASTERNERS!!!!’ is the fact that most Muslims do not live in the Middle-East. They live in Asia....
View ArticleHave a dog? Want to help science?
Record yourself playing with your puppies for 30-60 seconds and upload the vid to the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab website! Dog-dog play has been, relatively, well studied. The signs/signals/noises pups...
View ArticleTornadoes
Some folks have been worried about me, so I thought Id write this post to mention that I am okay, Arnie is okay, everything is okay with me. In the seven years Ive lived in OK, Ive been though a lot of...
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XMRV: The rats are trying to climb out of the sewer
I have known about this for a while, and have been debating whether or not I should say anything. I really dont want to give the disgraces responsible for the XMRV–>CFS fiasco, Judy Mikovits, Frank...
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GMO mosquitoes to stop mosquitoes (and all the diseases they carry)
Holy crap! This is so clever!! A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito Component #1– Anopheles gambiae, the kind of mosquito that is notorious for...
View ArticleProsecuting faked HIV vaccine results
Remember this? Wait, what? Faked HIV vaccine results The researcher accused of manipulating his reagents to ‘show his HIV vaccine strategy worked’ admitted he did it: Investigators say former Iowa...
View ArticleOh good lord: Sanjay Gupta and personal protective equipment
Some time last Tuesday, that strange sound you heard was thousands of scientists screaming in agony, and smashing their heads against the nearest keyboard/desk/wall. Good lord, Sanjay. Good lord. What...
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Saturday Shillery: Stuff I like
Want a unique gift for your sciency-nerdy-geeky-gamer friends this holiday season? Ethan shared a list of his favorite ugly gamer sweaters, and I want to share a list of some things I like:...
View ArticleUnimpressive political stunt: HIV research fraud behind bars
So the guy who faked some HIV research results is officially going to spend about five years in jail, and has to pay back $7 million. Former ISU scientist’s stiff fraud sentence sends message Yeah. It...
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