By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: January 11, 2012

A charge of widespread scientific fraud, involving 26 articles published in 11 journals, was leveled by the University of Connecticut today against Dipak K. Das, one of its researchers, whose work reported health benefits in red wine.The charges, if verified, seem unlikely to affect the field of ( Read more... )

Quake Experts to Be Tried for Manslaughter

Seven scientists and technicians who analyzed seismic activity ahead of the devastating earthquake that struck the Italian town of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009 will indeed face trial for manslaughter, a judge announced last week. The defendants are members of Italy's great risks committee, whose job is to ( Read more... )

Critiques prompt researchers to offer samples of poison-tolerant microbe to doubters.

Erika Check Hayden

At first, it sounded like the discovery of the century: a bacterium that can survive by using the toxic element arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA and in other biomolecules ( Read more... )

'Females are failed males,' says 16th century guide book on women:

A guide written in 1505 has been found and it contains 'secrets' about females that take political incorrectness to extremes.

Article here.

Defending Isagenix: A Case Study in Flawed Thinking
Published by Harriet Hall

The Internet is a wonderful new medium for communicating ideas and information in a rapid and interactive way. Many articles are followed by a “comments” section. Like so many things in this imperfect world, comments are a mixed blessing. They can enhance the article by ( Read more... )

New Mexico Bill Seeks to Protect Anti-Science Education
If educators in New Mexico want to teach evolution or climate change as a “controversial scientific topic,” a new bill seeks to protect them from punishment.

House Bill 302, as it’s called, states that public school teachers who want to teach “scientific weaknesses” about “controversial ( Read more... )

Autism and MMR Vaccine Study an 'Elaborate Fraud,' Charges BMJby Deborah Brauser ( Read more... )

Methane bubble "doomsday" story debunked
For several days, bloggers and journalists have been passing around a news story about how the BP oil disaster will unleash a "giant methane bubble" and initiate a mass extinction. Yes, it's a myth. And we've busted it.

In this article, called "Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world- ( Read more... )

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Mosquitoes can develop a resistance to substances used to repel them. This has been shown for the first time in laboratory tests at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and associates in the UK.

It is the yellow fever mosquito that has developed a resistance to the mosquito repellent DEET, a substance used in mosquito repellents ( Read more... )