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All posts with the tag "Scientific literature" are written by referring to the primary literature.
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Special issue in Nature on gender bias!
I was very pleasantly surprised to see that Nature’s most recent issue is focused on the gender gap in the sciences. Just this past November, Nature finally copped to the fact that they have some serious work of their own … Continue reading
What Andrew Cuomo's Abortion Proposal Says About Access in 2013
Reblogged from Swampland: There are two Americas when it comes to abortion—one in which it’s nearly impossible to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, and one in which access to the procedure is mostly unfettered and often publicly financed. Geography is everything. … Continue reading
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Giving STDs to goats. For science!
Goats could potentially transmit a dangerous parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, in their semen, according to research by Flaviana Wanderley and colleagues in Brazil. Well…who cares? Why should scientists devote research dollars and time to purposely giving goats STDs, just to see … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial insemination, Female fertility, goats, parasitism, Scientific literature
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Liebster award!
The blogger over at Alternative Hypothesis has nominated me for a Liebster blog award! Four other great blogs were also honored, so I recommend that you check those out. The Liebster award is a way for bloggers to help each … Continue reading
An open letter to Donna Laframboise (or, You have got to be F*!$*%@&! kidding me)
Yesterday, I read a lovely article on Foxnews.com with the headline “U.N. Hires Grad Students to Author Key Climate Report.” The article was about a new ‘book’ by ‘journalist’ Donna Laframboise, or as Fox put it “A scathing expose”. Scathing. … Continue reading
