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Why I Moved My Blog From Wired

Posted on June 8, 2013 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

Apologia: This is a bit inside-baseball, but as quite a few people have asked me what’s the full skinny on why I moved my blog from WIRED, I thought it be...

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Don’t Step in That Sh*t: How the GMO-Study Authors Played the Media

Posted on September 29, 2012 by David Dobbs / 2 Comments

Last week a small group of scientists and journalists signed a secret pact to do a bad, bad, really bad thing to science, journalism, and everyone that depends ...

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The “Vagina” Scientist Strikes Back: Dr. Jim Pfaus’s Defense of Naomi Wolf, Fact-Checked

Posted on September 15, 2012 by David Dobbs / 3 Comments

Earlier this week, I wrote a post criticizing Naomi Wolf’s use of science in her book “Vagina: A New Biography.” (See Naomi Wolf’s ̶...

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Oracles, Big Answers, & Pop Sci’s Neglect of Mystery

Posted on August 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Ta-Nahesi Coates, pondering the downfall of Jonah Lehrer, writes: [W]e now live in a world where counter-intuitive bullshitting is valorized, where the pose of ...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

Is Cognitive Science Full of Crap?

Posted on May 24, 2012 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

  [Note 5/24/12: I’m away from the desk this week. This post originally ran on February 28, 2011, and stirred a lot of online discussion; still fully...

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DNA Ain’t Destiny. No Kidding.

Posted on April 11, 2012 by David Dobbs / 8 Comments

Many in the genetico-literary science world have been gnashing their teeth over a recent New York Times story that remarks the unremarkable: a Study Says DNA’s ...

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Dissing the Disabled Without Data: A Biologist Mom Punches Back

Posted on February 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 13 Comments

This guest post is by biologist and writer Emily Willingham, who first published it yesterday at The Biology Files. I asked her if I could post it here because ...

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Those Who Waited Get Impatient Too: or how new journo tools can get you out of old school

Posted on May 25, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A couple weeks ago, Ed Yong published a talk by RadioLab’s Robert Krulwich that went viral in journalism and  science-writing circles, for good reason. Sp...

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The Allure of Gay Cavemen

Posted on April 15, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Guest post by Eric Michael Johnson The following guest post by Eric Michael Johnson is part of the Primate Diaries in Exile blog tour. You can follow other stop...

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Is Cognitive Science Full of Crap?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

 Is cognitive science full of crap? A biophyics researcher recently asked this of a cognitive science researcher. The latter answered with spirit. My own answe...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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