linkblogging at the ref desk

[telophase]

Pointing out the first Skeptic's Circle of 2009 to badnoodles for the lolbugs.

And if you're thinking about using any product containing probiotics, you might want to check out Mark Crislip's article at Science Based Medicine. (He runs an infectious disease blog at Rubor Dolor Calor Tumor, and has a hilariously snarky podcast available on iTunes against quack medicine.)

Comments

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

I love BugGirl Blog. She's what I'd aspire to be if I wasn't such an ardent devotee of Slack.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Science reporting is so terrible in this country.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup. For the most part, they just quote press releases, or accept whatever anyone tells them instead of asking questions.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Someone was decrying the death of traditional reporting the other day, saying that fact-checkers would be a thing of the past, and I was like, "hahahah because so many media outlets use fact-checkers. FUNNY."