I recently had a scientific paper accepted on the topic of parasites in damselflies. The lead author, a graduate student at Carleton University, has put up a blog post about it. Go read! http://buddingbiologist.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/the-currency-of-science/
This is the second of three segments that I presented on The Reality Check, Canada’s weekly skeptical podcast. On episode #205, I talked about allergy testing. Advances in medicine have completely eradicated diseases such as smallpox, and we are well on our way to doing the same for polio. Yet more diseases are firmly under control through most of the developed world through the use of vaccines. However, as we remove some causes of ill health, we notice that others have grown in prominence over the past few decades. Allergies are a good example of one of these increasingly diagnosed conditions, but the general public tends to have a fairly poor understanding of what allergies are, how they come about and how they can be diagnosed.Read More »
The journal Social Psychology has issued a call for proposals for a special issue of their journal to be published in 2014. The name of the issue will be “Replications of Important Results in Social Psychology” and the call is available here. Read More »
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