>> The Future of Science Journalism as discussed at the AAAS Froum on Science & Technology Policy >> AAAS
>> Latest on Simon Singh. He will appeal, so the campagin goes on. Be sure to sign the Sense About Science Petition. In the meantime, chriropractors are told to take down their websites.
>> Lord Drayson engages with [...]
The Science News Cycle, as seen by PhD Comics. (It’s so true!!)
>> Latest on the Simon Singh case is that he has until 8 June to appeal the High Court verdict and carry on fighting, possibly to the European Courts. A support event was held on the 18 May in a London pub, with several [...]
Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, the big news in the science communication world is Simon Singh losing his recent libel case with the British Chiropractic Association, which could have major implications for all science journalists looking to fight pseudoscience. A selection of coverage:
>> Guardian
>> Nature
>> New Scientist
>> The Economist
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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 [...]
19 Apr, 2009
Posted by: ayasawada In: Audio| Physics| Podcast| Science communication| nanotechnology
This week on the Nature Podcast, Kerri Smith and Adam Rutherford unzip nanotubes to make some graphene nanoribbons, challenge the idea that closely related species have similar cognitive abilities and hear about the world’s largest network of cosmic ray detectors in Argentina. All that, plus the weekly NewsChat, celebrating the life of John Maddox, former [...]