The UK has prohibited Andrew Wakefield from practicing medicine — you’ll remember him as the first to publish a peer-reviewed report linking autism to the MMR vaccine, in The Lancet in 1998 (which has since been retracted). Additional research has failed to find a connection between autism and any vaccine.
We know about posters, don’t we? The frenetic writing of an abstract before the deadline; the guesswork
Science tells us how we got here; poetry tells us who we are The Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English, and is awarded annually. I happen to have, on my desk, a copy of last year’s winner: transistor rodeo by…
Last week, the FDA raised concerns about Pathway Genomics’ genetic test kits they had planned to sell in Walgreens across the country. Now, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating Pathway’s tests as well as those sold online from 23andMe Inc. and Navigenics, all of which analyze saliva to determine a person’s risk of…
Competition time! I have a book prize for the first reader to tell me (in the comments, below) who said I
Brains Shine light on electrons
Reed College in Portland, Oregon, won’t have its federal funding pulled anytime soon, after the school’s normally raucous end of the year party went off last month without a hitch. Administrators at Reed were warned in April that the liberal arts school, which has a reputation for drug use among students, could get lose its…
I get to see some strange papers while trolling the F1000 website for the Faculty Dailies. Today I read about a teenager who spontaneously recovered from rabies, and more than I ever wanted to know about bile acids. And I quote,
Over the weekend a fire in Brazil destroyed what might have been the world’s largest collection of preserved snake and arachnid specimens. The blaze gutted a lab in Sao Paulo’s Instituto Butantan on Saturday (15th May), reducing 80,000 snakes and several thousand spider and scorpion specimens to cinders. “The entire collection was lost, the biggest…
Editor’s note: we’re pleased to welcome Morgan Giddings to Naturally Selected. Morgan will be guest-blogging for us on scientific careers and related topics. by Morgan Giddings A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows…
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