A litany on Science 2.0 is that when something comes up that might be about fish, call Neil Shubin - because he can make anything about fish.That's because we can make almost anything about fish. He has told the story before, and recounts in his new television show, that students in an anatomy class he taught likely wanted a refund when he explained he was a fish biologist, until he showed them...
read moreProfessional forester and writer Norm Benson recently got a healthy dose of anti-science environmentalism, because he wrote an article endorsing a vitamin-enriched bowl of rice that, nonetheless, is protested by Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists and everyone else who hates science more than they love children. read...
read moreA recent paper found an increased risk for malignant melanoma in men who took sildenafil (Viagra) for erectile dysfunction.Unlike some observational studies, this is not being exaggerated by attention-whoring researchers. They are cautious about what it means and doesn't mean. The media is making hay, of course, and they may be making it for good reason.The prospective cohort study was based on...
read moreA recent paper found an increased risk for malignant melanoma in men who took sildenafil (Viagra) for erectile dysfunction.Unlike some observational studies, this is not being exaggerated by attention-whoring researchers. They are cautious about what it means and doesn't mean. The media is making hay, of course, and they may be making it for good reason.The prospective cohort study was based on...
read moreI was cautiously optimistic when Dr. Ernie Moniz was tapped as Energy Secretary, for two reasons. First, he wasn't picked because he was obsessed with CO2 and $9 a gallon gas, the way Steven Chu was, and second, he had political experience. read...
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