How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the Science of Stress
The modern idea of stress began on a rooftop in Canada, with a handful of rats freezing in the winter wind. This was 1936 and by that point the owner of the rat...
Tag: Culture of science
An Academic Says Goodbye To All That
On seeing when it’s time to say goodbye to something you love, because there’s so much you hate about it. Very fine piece by @scicurious. I could ha...
Jerry Coyne Mucks Up and Misreads “Die, Selfish Gene, Die”
Below is a corrective comment I left below Jerry Coyne’s second of two posts (his first is here) critiquing “Die, Selfish Gene, Die,” my recen...
John Hawks is Pissed
John Hawks, the funny, fearless, adventurous anthropologist who writes one of the richest blogs in all academia, recently read an editorial at Current Biology t...
“The Book of Woe” – Gary Greenberg’s Romp of a Read About the DSM Debacle
Note: This review first appeared in Nature, 2 May 2012. My thanks to Nature for the commission and fine editorial support. When it is published later this month...
How Eugenics Gets Legit
In the wake of the flap over Geoffrey Miller’s fat-shaming, a friend pointed me to a remarkable collection at the Cold Spring Harbor website, the Eugenics...
They Froze for Science — But Got the Eggs
Below find #8 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s stay at WIRED, posted on the eve of the blog’s ...
How Darwin Seduced the Devout Asa Gray
Below find #7 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s stay at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog here. This ...
Free Science, One Paper at a Time (Neuron Culture Moving Party Track 6)
Below find #6 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I move the blog here...
The Case for Selective Paternalism in Genetic Testing
In the world of genetic testing, how much information is too much? Genetic counselor Laura Hercher argues that sometimes, selectivity is merited.