This is something of a rant about science journalism and my place in it. The core of the matter is this. In our peculiar circumstances, science writing has an ethical component. Although speech is free in a free country, individuals or corporations aren’t free of ethical responsibility for what they write. The problems we face…
I am deeper into considering what it is I do here and why, and whether it is a sensible life’s pursuit. As I make more connections among others doing similar things, I have come to the conclusion that there are very fundamental sociological and cultural differences that underly our wretched incapacity to make good collective…
I’m more than a little pleased that one of my contributions has been selected for inclusion in “The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2008″, the third edition of this publication. Alas, it won’t drive much traffic here, as it was on the late, lamented Correlations blog. It isn’t entirely polished, so I…