Category Archives: media criticism
Oldest Homo sapiens a “nothingburger”? Plus US health care policy approaches The End
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inIs the government telling women not to drink? How many microbes in the human body?
Posted by alcohol, archaea, Bacteria, brain, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contraception, drinking, FASD, featured, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, fungi, health care, media criticism, medically unexplained symptoms, microbes, Microbiology, On Science Blogs, Palaeomerycidae, Politics, psychology, Research, united states, women
inIs Lander’s revisionist CRISPR history sexist?
More on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs
Posted by bioethics, Bora Zivkovic, cranial, CRISPR, CRISPR/Cas9, dogs, eugenics, Evolution, featured, fraud, gene editing, genetic disease, genetic engineering, Genome, Genomics, GMO, health care, Human Evolution, media criticism, muscular dystrophy, On Science Blogs, Politics, pruning, Research, Science Magazine, united states, women
inWhite deaths increase: drugs, alcohol, suicide, but in US only. Why?
Cancer, processed meat, red meat. Just how bad? Not very.
Again, water on Mars. Also abortion, Planned Parenthood, fetal tissue research
WATERY MARS AGAIN Emily Lakdawalla thinks everybody should calm down about NASA’s much-trumpeted latest discovery of liquid water on Mars. The discovery, which is probably not flowing water but rather something more like damp sand, doesn’t, she argues at the … Continue reading
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inBreast cancer: Should DCIS be treated? Pig genome: messy and quite boaring
SHOULD DCIS BE TREATED LIKE BREAST CANCER? No one seems to know exactly what to make of the big study on the outcomes of DCIS. (DCIS = ductal carcinoma in situ, often called stage 0 breast cancer or precancer, which … Continue reading
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Pinker’s gene editing rant ignored most bioethics issues; debunking stoner Shakespeare
Do you suppose Steven Pinker’s broadside against professional bioethics oversight of CRISPR and other forms of gene editing–Pinker’s command to bioethics was brutally inflexible: “Get out of the way”–will change bioethics for the better? Or gene editing, for that matter? … Continue reading
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Posted by Astronomy, bioethics, Cannabis, CRISPR, gene editing, genetic engineering, genetics, Genome, Genomics, GMO, health care, Human Evolution, media criticism, On Science Blogs, Politics, pot, Research, Science Journalism, weed
inFirst Americans mystery again plus $100 million search for extraterrestrials
DUELING PAPERS ABOUT THE FIRST AMERICANS Oh, goody. Dueling papers. Always a treat. And dueling papers in the same week in Science and Nature, an extra-special treat. The topic a hot one, as befits dueling papers: Based on genetic studies … Continue reading
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