Image Source: National Geographic: Best Science Images of 2008 Announced (Honorable Mention, Photography:
“Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast” by Jessica Schiffman)
Ig Nobels
The Annals of Improbable Research has just had its annual big night out:
The ceremony began with past Ig winner Dan Meyer - the co-author of a British Medical Journal study on Sword-swallowing and Its Side Effects - swallowing a sword.
Read about this year’s winners - I’m particularly drawn to the winner of the Literature Prize: David Sims for his passionately written study “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations.”
Autism
A new book, Autism’s False Prophets, by vaccine scientist and anti-woo-merchant activist Paul Offit has just come out (with all profits going to genuine autism researchers), and the Science Blogs Book Club blog has a variety of responses from the Science bloggers. The author even responds to the responses. Kev Leitch, parent of a child with autism, focuses on what makes him angry about the woo-merchants: How Autism Has Become A Secondary Concern
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