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Plagiarism, norovirus, and Obamacare at the Republican convention
A FEW WORDS ABOUT PLAGIARISM AND HOW TO AVOID IT Gizmodo’s George Dvorsky helpfully relayed scientific proof of the odds that particular words and phrases in aspiring First Lady Melania Trump’s speech...
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The DNA episode: Mukherjee’s epigenetics update, LUCA, genetic enhancement,...
BREAKING NEWS ON EPIGENETICS: AN UPDATE ON MUKHERJEE’S NEW YORKER PIECE As I wrote here at On Science Blogs in May, the excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s history of genetics The Gene that the New...
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More marijuana research? Plus writing about the candidates’ (mental) health
MARIJUANA RESEARCH IS NOW EASIER TO DO. MAYBE. If you thought the recent Drug Enforcement Administration announcement that new regulations would make research on medical marijuana easier would make...
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Dogs understand human language, science writers are too good, we met the...
TOWARD A TALKING DOG The news that Hungarian scientists have confirmed that dogs can understand human language, both the meaning of specific words and the emotion behind them, is not deeply shocking....
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Scientists want Trump to pay attention. Prize-winning science writing on...
DEAR PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP . . . It’s open season on open letters from scientists to President-elect Donald Trump, three of them to date, urging that he pay them more attention. The Union of Concerned...
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More on Trump effect on science and medicine, plus big science blogging news
SCIENCE ADVISERS AND SCIENCE ADVICE The new Administration hardly lacks for Fake News, but surely one of the best such items is the rumor that Trump planned to appoint 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate...
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De-extinction is fake news
WOOLLY MAMMOTH DE-EXTINCTION IS FAKE NEWS De-extinction–ideas for raising long-gone organisms from the dead–is back. The highest-profile project of the de-extinction movement is viewed in the media...
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Can a protein from human umbilical cord blood rejuvenate the brain?
Some skepticism was called for in science writers’ responses to the news that a protein from human umbilical cord blood improves memory in aging mice. Most posts I saw included caveats of some sort,...
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Juno spacecraft’s first report on Jupiter, plus news about science blogging
JUNO REPORTS ON JUPITER’S DOINGS The Juno spacecraft has delivered her first data dump on her target Jupiter, the largest object in our Solar System. The result is dozens of papers in Geophysical...
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John Oliver explains childhood vaccination. Also, prostate cancer screening...
JOHN OLIVER IS ANTI THE ANTI-VAXXERS Blogging commentary about John Oliver’s take on the anti-vaccine movement last Sunday (June 25) was, of course, nearly all positive. The comedian devoted almost his...
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