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 Send to email | "Denialism" hits the NY Times in Policy and Politics |  By Thoughts
el 03-Jan-2010 | In an excellent article about the response to the swine flu pandemic, we have these penultimate paragraphs:
Dr. Frieden said he thought a victory over the antivaccine movement had been scored. Nearly 60 million people have been vaccinated, including many pregnant women and children, with no surge in side effects.
John P. Moore, an AIDS researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, was less sure. Dr. Moore, who spent years fighting AIDS denialism, has called skepticism about flu vaccine ?an unholy alliance of the left and right? because it joined the liberal natural-medicine proponents with anti-big-government conservatives. Note the casual use of the term "denialism" here, without any need to offer a definition. Contrast that with a piece by NCSE's Steve Newton responding to an anti-global warming/anti-evolution op-ed by Rick Santorum, in which he (and his editors within NCSE and at the Philadelphia Inquirer) felt the need to define denialism for a public possibly unfamiliar with the term. It would seem that, thanks in part to the work of my Sciblings at Denialism blog, my panel at Netroots Nation, Michael Spector's Denialism and a host of other efforts to bring this phenomenon to a wider audience, people are recognizing the dangers of science denial, and treating it with the disregard it deserves. Read the comments on this post...
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 | Thoughts From Kansas |  Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Denialism is denialism |  DaveScot, at ID creationist Bill Dembski's place, is on a climate change denial binge. Dave writes:
that antarctic sea ice is at a record high (at least since 1980 when measurement started). The new high is REALLY high. It’s 50% greater than the old record set in 1995. In case anyone is laboring under the misapprehension that antarctic sea is retreating, it ain’t. [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Feb-2009 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| "Denialism" hits the NY Times | | In an excellent article about the response to the swine flu pandemic, we have these penultimate paragraphs:
Dr. Frieden said he thought a victory over the antivaccine movement had been scored. Nearly 60 million people have been vaccinated, including many pregnant women and children, with no surge in side effects.
John P. Moore, an AIDS researcher at Weill Cornell Medic [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Jan-2010 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Boom Blox Hits Next Week, New Trailer Hits Now [Media] | | I'm still a little confused about how exactly Steven Spielberg was involved in this project. I mean, was it like him drinking a copy of coffee and saying "Hey we should make a game with dominoes and shit" and then EA Casual turned it into something pl [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Apr-2008 by Brian Crecente in Boom BloxClipsEaElectronic ArtsMediaSteven Spielberg
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| All of the smash hits in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits |  After a weird fan voting initiative through which fans chose the order in which Guitar Hero: Smash Hits tracks would be revealed, Activision has finally just given IGN the whole set list. Specifically, for those of you who have already been follow [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-May-2009 by JC Fletcher in activisionguitar-heroguitar-hero-smash-hitsmusicrhythm
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
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