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The Atlantic, Scientology, and the Theft of Credibility

Posted on January 16, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

At a publication like The Atlantic, a writer earns the right to occupy editorial space through merit, not a sheaf of twenties slipped to the editor. Wired Scien...

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The Independent Sells Some Ed Space

Posted on April 7, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Last summer I and many others left ScienceBlogs, our blog host, because its publisher had sold to Pepsi a blog slot that looked in every essential like the a no...

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Neuron Culture’s Best of Year

Posted on January 5, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...

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Marc Hauser, Virginia Heffernan, & Stephen Fry — Neuron Culture’s August Best

Posted on September 2, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Moving your blog generally creams one’s reader numbers. So I was happy to see that though I left Scienceblogs in mid-July, August was easily Neuron Cultur...

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Guardian announces new blog network and scidom over the blogosphere

Posted on September 1, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Guardian launched a new blog network yesterday, with a strong lineup: GrrlScientist covering matters evo and orni (bird lovers, take note), Evan Harris cove...

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[Updated:] For Virginia Heffernan readers, some context on the Scienceblogs-Pepsi fizz

Posted on July 30, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Before commenting I'll make three disclosures up top: I have written and plan on continuing to write for the same magazine, though I think this does not seriou...

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McKenna & Blum (and her Pulitzer) leave ScienceBlogs

Posted on July 20, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

We had not been at that paper very long when stupid actions by his supervisors confronted him with a choice that no one who loves their work wants to make: Stay...

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The ScienceBlog exodus continues

Posted on July 19, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Of Seed Media's recent recent and not-so-recent blunders, such as (as Bora put it ) "t hings like this and this and this and this ,", PalMD says: [Se...

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Are bloggers journalists? BoraZ nails this slippery thang to the floor

Posted on July 19, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

We here at Scienceblogs, by virtue of moving from our individual blogs to the network, have largely left the realm of “distributed by individuals to each other”...

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Where the ScienceBlog exodees went

Posted on July 12, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The wonderful Skulls in the Stars is kindly keeping tabs on the virtual whereabouts of the bloggers who left Scienceblogs over PepsiGate. I thought I’d pa...

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