It was one of those emails that come out of the blue. Somebody who had seen that this blog cited the term “bad science” once before, was sending me an infographic, wanting to know what I thought. What I didn’t know was that I was just one of many bloggers to whom Tony Shin had [...]
Last December, we took a break from filling this space with our observations on science, research, the news media and various related topics. We had not run out of ideas, nor had the world seemed suddenly more reasonable. We were, simply put, tired, and needed to set the machinery on “pause” for a bit. How [...]
This morning’s New York Times carried a story deep inside about an event held at New York’s 92nd Street YMHA, a venue long admired for its attention to the arts. It seems that comedian and actor Steve Martin had been the focus of an onstage conversation with Times’ columnist Deborah Soloman. A long-time friend of [...]
Standing before a room full of student journalists can be unnerving, even for us old scribes. Such was the case last week when I gave a talk on science writing to the staff of the student newspaper. I had shown onscreen an example of our work – a recent story that reported on a link [...]
