2018-05-07 16:34
I was on Inside Edition last week to talk about zombies.
That’s a weird sentence to type.
While the story was dramatic, television clips are notoriously difficult to discuss anything o… Read More
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2018-01-03 21:11
I’m honestly not even sure where to start with this.
This claim comes from Kelly Brogan, “holistic psychiatrist” and noted HIV denier. She claims, “Goodb… Read More
2017-12-16 23:07
Yesterday, the Washington Post broke a story noting that CDC officials are no longer allowed to use the following seven words: “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” &ldqu&hell…Read More
2017-10-18 13:42
As several others have already noted, after almost 12 years, Scienceblogs is shutting down at month’s end. Though I’ve done most of my writing elsewhere over the last few years… Read More
2017-10-18 11:42
Movin'...
As several others have already noted, after almost 12 years, Scienceblogs is shutting down at month's end. Though I've done most of my writing elsewhere over the last… Read More
2017-09-29 15:29
Spring, 2004. I was in the second year of my post-doc, with kids ages 4 and 2. Because I was no longer a student, the full brunt of my student loan payments had hit me, which were collective… Read More
2017-07-26 18:33
I recently finished a 2-year stint as an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer. It’s an excellent program–ASM pays all travel expenses for lecturers, who speak… Read More
2017-05-31 18:27
A claim that scientists need to quit making:
I’ve written about these types of claims before. The first one–a claim that antimicrobial peptides were essentially “resistanc… Read More
2017-05-31 16:27
Is there such a thing as an "evolution-proof" drug? (part the third)
A claim that scientists need to quit making:
I've written about these types of claims before. The first one… Read More
2016-10-27 14:59
The news over the past 24 hours has exclaimed over and over:
HIV’s Patient Zero Exonerated
How scientists proved the wrong man was blamed for bringing HIV to the U.S.
Researchers Clear… Read More
2016-10-27 12:59
HIV's "Patient Zero" was exonerated long ago
The news over the past 24 hours has exclaimed over and over:
HIV's Patient Zero Exonerated
How scientists proved the wrong man was b… Read More
2016-09-27 14:26
The 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak altered our perception of just what an Ebola outbreak could look like.
While none of the three primary affected countries–Liberia, Sierr… Read More
2016-06-23 15:00
[Obvious warning is obvious: potential spoilers for A Song of Ice and Fire novels/Game of Thrones TV series below].
While no one will claim that George R.R. Martin’s epic series, &ldqu&hell…Read More
2016-06-21 15:41
Wrong link–try this one! Read More
2016-05-27 16:05
E. coli, from Wikipedia commons
We’ve been expecting it, and now it’s here.
Yesterday, two article we… Read More
2016-05-27 14:05
MCR-1 has been identified in the United States--what is it, and what does it mean?
E. coli, from Wik… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Mayim Bialik is an actress. She grew up playing TV’s “Blossom,” and recently has surfaced again on television as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, a neurobiologist on “The Big B… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Some who oppose vaccination do so, at least in part, because of concerns that pharmaceutical companies make profits off of vaccines. Many recommend alternative products, including supplement… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Being a new parent is exhausting. All of a sudden, you’re out of the hospital and on your own with this amazing, tiny human, and you alone are responsible for her care. You’re gi… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This week at #scio14, Danielle Lee is leading a discussion on privilege in science. I’d started this post and abandoned it a few weeks back, but I think it speaks to a similar phenomen… Read More
2016-02-03 15:04
Like cockroaches, the conspiracy theorists suggesting the Zika virus outbreak is anything but a normal, naturally-occurring event have begun to come out of the woodwork. To be expected, the… Read More
2016-02-01 15:44
As you’ve probably seen, unless you’ve been living in a cave, Zika virus is the infectious disease topic du jour. From an obscure virus to the newest scare, interest in the virus… Read More
2015-04-30 19:03
I’ve been working on livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus and farming now for almost a decade. In that time, work from my lab has shown that, first, the “livestock-associat… Read More
2015-02-11 04:23
I’ve written previously about Mayim Bialik, an actress previously on the TV show “Blossom” and currently on the “The Big Bang Theory.” She has a PhD in neurosci… Read More
2015-01-15 16:06
Measles has come to the happiest place on Earth. As of this writing, a total of 32 cases of measles have been linked to Disneyland visits that took place between December 17th and 20th. Abou… Read More
2014-11-01 05:51
I’ve been asked several times about this NY Post article on the CDC’s “admission” that a sneeze could spread Ebola. The Post (which, I should note, is the least credi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have a paper out in the Christmas issue of BMJ on the coming zombie apocalypse. You read that right. And yes, it was peer-reviewed. I’ve discussed previously how I’ve used the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’ve been involved in a few discussions of late on science-based sites around yon web on antibiotic resistance and agriculture–specifically, the campaign to get fast food giant S… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Long-term readers of the blog know of my interest in HIV denialism, especially as it is maintained and spread via the Internet. In my online travels, I recently met John Strangis via th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Almost a year ago, I wrote about a terrible article that was published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health. FiPH is a legitimate, peer-reviewed journal, and they had just published a m… Read More
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