Via Stoat, an excellent survey of the epistemological value of peer review by Victor Venema.

Egypt’s Health Minister Mohamed Hamed said that salmonella was behind the second mass poisoning incident in Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Hamed said in a press statement on Friday that the final report on the incident revealed that the bacteria contaminated the … Continue reading →

Naomi Klein, a couple of years ago, observed that "it is not opposition to the scientific facts of climate change that drives denialists but rather opposition to the real-world implications of those facts." She quotes Dellingpole: "Modern environmentalism successfully advances many of the causes dear to the left: redistribution of wealth, higher taxes, greater government intervention, regulation." and offers her own "inconvenient truth". She says that on this point, Dellingpole is right.

I was walking on the beach this afternoon when this critter poked his/her head out of the surf just offshore, looked around, then made a dash for the nearby woods. Need some lazyweb help – is it a sea otter? No related posts.

I had been debating whether to blog about Angelina Jolie’s announcement last week in a New York Times editorial entitled My Medical Choice that she had undergone bilateral prophylactic mastectomy because she had been discovered to have a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that is associated with a very high risk of breast cancer. On [...]