While Aliquot is new and experimental, many other science bloggers are doing a fantastic job of promoting sound science and scientific discourse with the general public.
In the first part of this series, here are a few blogs I recommend:
- http://scienceblogs.com (a forum for science bloggers, hosted by Seed Magazine - also worth checking out at http://seedmagazine.com, Seed is devoted to articles about science and culture)
- The prestigious scientific journal, Nature, published an article in 2006 highlighting the top 5 (and top 50) science blogs by scientists. While the list of the top 50 ((found at http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/multimedia/50_science_blogs.html)) requires either a personal subscription or access via a library computer, here are the top 5 - as determined by Technorati (a blog search engine):
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist
- Nature magazine also contains a regular feature called 'From the blogosphere', which may be of interest if you can obtain access to the journal. Nature blogs are found at http://blogs.nature.com/
- Another prestigious scientific journal, Science (a publication of the AAAS - or American Association for the Advancement of Science) also has a blog site at: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/
- Wired Magazine (also highly recommended as a source of science, technology and culture articles) publishes a blog at http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/
- Many other scientific and lay-science publications host blogs, but for this post, I've only listed a few.
- The scientific journal PLOS (Public Library of Science), which is freely available to the public, had an interesting article about blogs which can be found at:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0060240
Interested to hear any other science blog recommendations!
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Vince Racaniello is a popular virology professor who makes medical science understandable particularly when it comes to virology. Although the mainstream myth is that the only infectious diseases left in the world are in underdeveloped countries, as Dr. Racaniello notes, that really isn't true.
More and more cancers are being found to have infectious coorelates as are other more complex chronic diseases. Life style factors are only one relatively small piece of the pie when it comes to variables.
Dr. Racaniello's January 22, 2010 post on Koch's Postulates for the 21st Century explains in plain language why more traditional medicine and even the "venerable" CDC are so last century.
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