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The Biologista: MMR is safe. Tell your friends.
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Friday, 6 February 2009. MMR is safe. Tell your friends. Recently reported on a stunningly ignorant radio broadcast by Jeni Barnett perpetuating the MMR vaccine scare. Ten years after a peer-reviewed paper didn't say there's a connection between MMR and autism but one of the authors told the media that it did, we're still going in circles. We can point fingers in all sorts of directions, including at ourselves, but the data has shown time and again that MMR is safe. Update 08 February 2009: And evidence.
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The Biologista: Holy F**king Sh*t: Daily Mail debunks MMR autism link
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Thursday, 19 February 2009. Holy F* king Sh*t: Daily Mail debunks MMR autism link. This post may be unsuitable for minors or people upset by scenes of total doublethink. Well, the day has finally come. The Daily Mail has finally joined the rest of the world in accepting that MMR is safe. There are others to blame. Us, apparently. In a remarkable display of doublethink, the Daily Mail points the finger at "middle-class MMR refuseniks". Parents who somehow bought the press-release pseudoscience. THIS WAS Y...
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The Biologista: It's Revolution, Baby
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008. It's Revolution, Baby. I talked about why I think this happens, and why it’s not actually a reflection on proper science at all. True scientific revolution is another story and an exciting one. Maybe not “tabloid exciting” though. Written by The Biologista. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Update: 03 April 2009. A nerdly April Fools Day bit for those who love the Evolution/Creation "debate":. New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong. Or "The Scientific Method".
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The Biologista: The Great Wormtown Spade Disaster (Part 1)
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Monday, 28 July 2008. The Great Wormtown Spade Disaster (Part 1). The story below is my attempt to put some of the core concepts of Evolution into terms that are accessible to a wide audience. I'd hope it could be read and understood by anyone from the age of 10 without patronising anyone over the age of 12. a tall order maybe. For anyone interested in what it all means, I've listed some of the concepts touched on in their scientific terms at the end. Part 2: In Which Disaster Happens. A nerdly April Foo...
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Of Leeds, life and religion in science | Free Radicals
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Or why I love a library). Of Leeds, life and religion in science. March 21, 2011. Yesterday, my grandmother passed away at the splendid age of 94. She was a committed Christian, and one of my strongest memories of her is the time when she took me to buy a Bible. My grandmother believed in all the myths that Peter Atkins derides in his new book. I was quite relieved at the weekend to see that it wasn’t just me that felt the book was rather hit and miss. In the Guardian , Steven Poole said. Paywall), I poi...
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Neuroskeptic: Language That Is Person-First
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Has moved to http:/ blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/. Thursday, 31 January 2013. Language That Is Person-First. An editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. By Roger Collier highlights the problem of Person-first language: Laudable cause, horrible prose. Person-first language (or language that is person-first. He goes on to quote linguist Helena Halmari who highlights a number of problems with the approach:. After all, most adjectives with positive connotations precede nouns. We ...
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Neuroskeptic: Neuroskeptic Is Moving
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Has moved to http:/ blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/. Saturday, 9 February 2013. Over the next few days, Neuroskeptic. Will be moving to Discover Magazine. Which is very exciting. This will mean no new posts for at least a week, while we sort out the technical issues of the transition, and I've also turned comments off - all existing comments will be moved over to the new blog, however. For more updates you can follow me on Twitter. See you on the other side soon! View my complete profile.
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Neuroskeptic: NOS1 - An Impulsivity Gene?
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Has moved to http:/ blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/. Friday, 16 January 2009. NOS1 - An Impulsivity Gene? Of the pitfalls of candidate gene association studies. With small sample sizes and multiple comparisons, false positive results. Are all too common, especially in behavioural genetics. Yet it's not all bad. The renowned Klaus-Peter Lesch. And colleagues have just produced a paper. NOS1 codes for the enzyme nitric oxide synthase 1, which is expressed in neurones and makes nitric oxide. Report...
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New duty on scientists to be trusted by politicians is unacceptable | Dr Evan Harris
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Lib Dems, Science, Human Rights, Free Speech, Equality. Laquo; Disdain for parliamentary reform. Drugs Advisory Council: wholly owned subsidiary of the Home Office. New duty on scientists to be trusted by politicians is unacceptable. Responding to the publication of the Principles for the Treatment of Independent Scientific Advice. By the Government, Dr Evan Harris MP, Liberal Democrat Science spokesman and a leading voice in the campaign to protect independent science advice. The Government’s Principles...
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Neuroskeptic: Visualizing The Connected Brain
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Has moved to http:/ blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/. Wednesday, 8 February 2012. Visualizing The Connected Brain. So it seems as though the "connectome" is the latest big thing. In neuroscience. This is the brain's wiring diagram, in terms of the connections between neurons and on a larger scale, between brain regions. It's not made of spaghetti, either. Connectomics does however unquestionably provide some of the prettiest images. Visualization tool they used). Here's the authors' description:.
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