Categories
Announcements Blogging

I feel an eruption coming on…

…well, not really. It’s just that I wanted to welcome the newest addition to the ScienceBlogs Collective, Dr. Erik Klemetti, a geologist who spends most of his professional time thinking about magma, and likes to blog about it at Eruptions. Check it out, and enjoy!

Categories
Antivaccine nonsense Autism Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Computers and social media Entertainment/culture Medicine Quackery

Another failure of the memory hole, thanks to the Internet

Poor Jeni Barnett. You remember Jeni Barnett, don’t you? She’s the U.K. radio host whose ill-informed rants against vaccines Ben Goldacre exposed so gloriously last week. Unfortunately, the price Ben paid consisted of threats of legal action for “copyright infringement” in the form of his having posted audio of the relevant segment of Barnett’s show. […]

Categories
Blogging Medicine

Am I that oblivious? Did I actually win?

When I mentioned a while back that, although I like awards as much as the next guy, I don’t go actively seeking them, I wasn’t kidding. As evidence that I wasn’t kidding, I point out that, until some of you started letting me know about it, I had no clue that I had actually won […]

Categories
Announcements Blogging Medicine

Welcome back, PalMD!

Good news! After an extended and distinguished stint as a coblogger on Denialism.com, blog bud PalMD has decided to resurrect his own blog, the place where he got started, White Coat Underground. The only difference is that this time he’s doing it as a member of the ScienceBlogs collective. Head on over and say hi. […]

Categories
Blogging Medicine

Kev does Abel one better: A vasectomy on Twitter

First fellow ScienceBlogger Abel Pharmboy live-blogged (sort of) his vasectomy. That record could not stand, however. You just knew it wouldn’t be long before someone tried to outdo him. Now Kev is live-Tweeting (live-Twittering?) his own vasectomy. He’s at the surgeon’s office right now, but tells us the surgeon is running a little late! Follow […]