Daily Archives: August 9th, 2007

An odd email campaign by Africa Fighting Malaria

I and a whole bunch of other bloggers were contacted this week by the Astroturf group Africa Fighting Malaria. They wanted us to know a new paper had been published about DDT:
“This information was distributed to global media today. We are sharing it with you now because we hope, regardless of your predisposition, that [...]

Science bloggers with opinions

The Innoculated Mind has a great rant about the problems of mixing blogging about science, and being a scientist, with the perception that a scientist should be “objective.” Which, ergo, means that you can’t have a personal opinion.*
The part I liked the best from it was a quote from PZ:
“Maybe you aren’t interested (even if [...]