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American Medical Association president Dr. Nancy Nielsen as featured guest in PCRM conference call? Really? Will she be calling shenanigans on their lies?
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If you want it to be all about you, maybe you need to LISTEN to honest answers to some hard questions.
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Great resources for those who prioritize getting it (rather than protecting their own tender feelings).
Category Archives: Linkfest
Recommended reads on women in math, science, engineering.
They’re both by men, but sometimes it happens that way.
- Mark Chu-Carroll ridicules Vox Day’s ridiculous claim that women are too dumb to do long division, let alone program computers. While Day’s claim was silly from the get-go, Mark’s take-down in really nice.
- A friend from the three-dimensional world (specifically math camp), Jonathan Kulick, who cannot hide from the blogosphere even in Tbilisi, examines claims that women are underrepresented in science for reasons other than bias. Will it surprise you to hear that Christina Hoff Sommers may be dismissing research she doesn’t like out of hand?
If you want to share links to other things we ought to be reading on this subject or others, leave them in the comments.
links for 2008-02-12
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Lapin noir.
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The natural progression of primary season. (*Something* is rotten …)
links for 2008-02-05
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Who knew Casey Luskin would swipe an icon an represent himself as living up to a standard he was clearly dodging? (Anyone who’s been paying attention, of course.)
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The Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting community weighs in as to whether Casey Luskin (who lifted the BPR3 icon) followed their guidelines.
links for 2008-02-03
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What’s at stake in deciding whether to blog under a pseudonym or under your real name?
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What’s worse than mouth bacteria? Hand bacteria. (Do you know where those hands have been?)
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Why the FDA and food labeling laws are insufficient to keep us safe from food poisoning.
links for 2008-02-02
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What good is it to master the mechanics of arithmetic if you don’t understand it?
links for 2008-01-30
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The science blogosphere may not be so “bloggy” as other quarters (at least, given one stereotype of blogginess).
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Maybe not being stereotypically “bloggy” is a good thing (not just for our readers, but so we don’t undercut the science “brand”).
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The original CSI: good science. Spontaneous human combustion: not so much.
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Respectful Insolence: Irresponsible anti-vaccination idiocy about autism to air on ABC’s “Eli Stone”Why must “entertainment” involve pseudo-science? (Memo to ABC: it needn’t!)
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Sometimes a job search really isn’t. Does that make the aware candidate’s application performance art?
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Breaking the taboo against being visibly committed to career and family as an act of mentoring.
links for 2008-01-12
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An interesting discussion about how what we think we need to do for our readers or our connection to the blogosphere can create stress for us and impinge on our non-virtual lives.
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Why might women be less interested than men in fields like math or computer science? Someone really interested in the answer has to look at some of the crap girls put up with.
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What do ethics demand as far as community in the blogosphere? (Is it different for people blogging about science vs. those blogging about politics, I wonder?)
links for 2008-01-10
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Excellent discussion about responsibilities within comment threads — potentially useful for my Science Blogging Conference session.
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Monthly history of science podcasts! Cool beans!
links for 2008-01-09
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An interesting addition to the tenure dossier: a public talk on one’s research.
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I think the philosophers quoted have interestingly different ideas of what constitutes the well-being of a profession.
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How hard *was* the job market in philosophy 10 years ago? (And did they really have to walk to the APA and then back to the remote motel barefoot in the snow and uphill both ways?)
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Students ask astounding questions about their class enrollment. It’s enough to make you wonder if they understand this “college” thing the same way their professors do.
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A quick reminder that who we see doing X can shape our views on who *can* do X.
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A modest proposal to solve the postdoc problem.
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Recommended preparation for grad school.
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“These Colors Don’t Run (they grow mold, ferment, degrade, are infested with insects, turn to slime and just plain smell bad): A Long Term Study Of The Forces Of Nature On Assorted Fruits From The Western United States”. I’ve found my source of political prognostication through Presidential Election 2008