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Michael Marshall is a science journalist. He published a short essay in New Scientist where he laments the fact that popular science books ...

The November 1, 2024 issue of Science contains three articles on misinformation in science. The articles tend to concentrate on the standar...

This is another post about a bad press release based on a lack of knowledge of the history of the field. Here's the press release ...

That seven Nobel Prizes were awarded directly or indirectly for work in tumor virology illustrates the impact of the field on biomedic...

On June 3, 2024,the New York Times published an opinion piece by Alina Chan in which she promoted the lab leak conspiracy theory about the ...

Don't bother trying to reason with a publisher. All of them have different views on proper style and every single one of them is absolut...

Here's an example of a press release that distorts science by promoting incorrect information that is not found in the actual publicatio...

On Sept. 5, 2012 ENCODE researchers, in collaboration with the science journal Nature , launched a massive publicity campaign to convince th...

Science editors asked young scientists to imagine what kind of course they would have created if they could go back to a time before the pa...

Here's an interesting presentation by Sean B. Carroll, the evolutionary biologist and author of several books on evolution. He's als...

Science writers have always had articles published in the leading science journals such as Science and Nature but over the past few decade...

I want to address a recent article on science writing: When editors and scientists meet: communicating science without dumbing it down . The...

The first draft of my book is ready to be sent to my publisher. Text by Laurence A. Moran Cover art and figures by Gordon L. Moran ...

An article on Nature: INDEX reports on a recent survey of scientists: Cutting corners a bigger problem than research fraud . The subtitle s...

We had a great time last night discussing Can You Tell Real Science News from Fake News?

Julia Shaw is a forensic psychologist. She is currently a senior lecturer in criminology at the London South Bank University (London, UK)....

I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! The first chapter is an introduction to g...

I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! The first chapter is an introduction to g...

I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! I thought I'd post the TOC for each c...

I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! I thought I'd post the TOC for each c...