Did the new Post op-ed by Sarah Palin on global warming get the same multi-layered fact-checking as George Will? Sigh. Deltoid has the details.
Originally published December 8, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
Author: Matt Kristoffersen
My latest podcast is about the ways viruses jump the species fence and give rise to new diseases. I talk to evolutionary biologistPaul Turner, who runs experiments in which viruses evolve to attack new hosts. Plus, how viruses have sex and why.
For more on Turner’s work, here’s an article I wrote about him a few years back.
Originally published December 8, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.
This is good. Parasites have made it to the Colbert Report. It’s no secret that Stephen Colbert is a modern sort of Mr. Wizard (see his stuff on electromagnetism, microbes, and naming new species of spiders). Now Colbert introduces the nation, nay, the world, to a fish parasite that plays the part of the fish tongue.
In 2010 I will be teaching two short courses on science writing, one on land and one at sea.
Continue reading “Science Writing Workshops: Ashore and At Sea”
Long-time readers of this blog will be aware of my Ahab-like obsession with George Will’s global warming errors in the Washington Post–and the Post’s hollow claims to have carefully fact-checked him. I confess that I’ve let a couple of his more recent columns slip by. But I had to stop to blog about his latest take on global warming, in which he jumps on the recently stolen emails among climate scientists. He does a remarkable job of making no sense at all. Continue reading “George Will: Uncheckable?”