Posts tagged “Science”
What I’ve Noticed
A beautiful post on hierarchies and judgement within marginalized communities. The Skeptic’s Book of Pooh-Pooh points out an awesome news story on the danger anti-vaxers create for children in their communities. The anti-vaxers hypocrisy is also on display in their support of chemical castration for autistic boys. We can’t expect toxic products to stop coming […]
What I’ve Noticed
Finding effective treatments for Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses has become much more difficult. As usual, it’s all about the money: The problem, they say, started back in 1980, when Ronald Reagan changed the rules governing how scientists (and the entities they work for) profit from their work. Where scientists used to gain fame […]
Gloom and Doom
Science was not taken very seriously at all by the Bush administration, and Obama is working hard to restore scientific integrity in the executive branch. Last week, the White House issued a memorandum as part of its effort to correct the ignorance and manipulation of science to fit ideological goals. It stated that Political officials […]
What I’ve Noticed
My university, like many others across the country, is facing unbelievable budget cuts (40%!!!). They’re cutting programs and employees right and left. What I don’t get is why they aren’t cutting athletics. “Corrective rape” of lesbians in South Africa goes unprosecuted. Incredibly bad news for women in Arizona. Come back, Janet! Dear Famous Asshole Neurologist […]
What I’ve noticed
Some of the language in this article on Chris Brown’s abuse of Rhianna is really upsetting: a brutal argument between the singer and his girlfriend, Rihanna, provoked by her discovery of a text message from another woman. [emphasis mine] Abuse is not a “brutal argument” and “provoked” suggests she somehow is to blame for the […]
Science rocks my socks
I’ve been working madly to get some data together to present at a conference in a few months and last night I wrote the last line of code, plotted the data, and just sat there for a minute. Sometimes (and by sometimes I mean all the time) science is surprising. Something I thought was sort […]
Citation managers
I have to read a lot of papers for work, and every once in awhile I write one of my own. Keeping track of all the papers and then citing them and building bibliographies can be pretty time consuming. Citation managers make the job a lot easier. I’ve been using RefWorks for the past year, […]