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This week WBS has mostly been watching:
Jared Diamond evil? An ongoing case accuses him of — shock, horror — misrepresenting the facts, accusing a tribe in Papua New Guinea of revenge-driven acts of murder, rape and theft, and prompting a $10 million lawsuit against the New Yorker, who carried the article.
If that wasn’t [...]

Another week, another science faux pas by the hacks. New Scientist’s blog reports how a casual mention of geoengineering by John Holdren, President Obama’s chief scientific adviser, got blown all out of proportion. Sigh.
David Bradley over at ScienceBase has posted a list of ten writing tips for scientists, several of which are worth science writers [...]