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I love the internet because it tells me how to make a flame thrower out of prosciutto. Or a cucumber.

There's also the charming explosion of the story that Twitter makes you a bad person. Which is Not True. But it's a perfect example of the problems with science journalism, especially corporate science journalism, which go like this ( Read more... )

This is comforting: The first big hoopy "vaccines cause autism" study was faked. Not just inaccurate, but actively falsified. I'm all in favor of reducing net lifetime exposure to scary chemicals, but can we please use Real Science&tm; to decide these things?

However, in happier, fandomy news...


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Rebel astronomers!

...a long battle could be in the offing among astronomers, whose quiet and bookish exterior can mask steely resolve when it comes to disputes ( Read more... )