To build slightly on Scott's post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein's excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy's nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine views. McCarthy's career is totally irrelevant to the issue. She is wrong and dangerous because...
Public health
In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in.
I've been using a local coffee bar as my office for parts of this summer when not in the coding lab for my agenda-setting project. Besides some excellent lattes and.
A new study makes some audacious claims about the supposed value of breastfeeding. Apparently, such claims are both very common and very controversial. I'm not familiar with the relevant epidemiological literature, but I suspect that debates in this area are influenced heavily by, among other...