http://www.metafilter.com/tags/antiscience Posts tagged with 'antiscience' at MetaFilter. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:14:33 -0800 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:14:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/123029/There%2Dis%2Dalways%2Da%2Dlast%2Dtime%2Dfor%2Deverything <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2012/dec/18/anti-science-fiction">Is Science Fiction promoting pseuodoscience?</a> Is it <a href="http://io9.com/5968603/must-watch-china-mieville-explains-why-science-fiction-is-not-superior-to-fantasy">not really better than fantasy?</a> Is it exhausted and dying, per Paul Kincaid (<a href="http://ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/what-rough-beast-part-1/">part 1</a>, <a href="http://ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/what-rough-beast-part-2/">part 2</a>), a sort of genre-writing version of completing a list of <a href="http://downlode.org/Etext/nine_billion_names_of_god.html">The Nine Billion Names of God</a>? Does <a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/geeks-guide-alastair-reynolds/">physics-bothering</a> unrepentant <a href="http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2012/11/space-travels-in-my-blood.html">space case</a> Alistair Reynolds have a compass pointing <a href="http://approachingpavonis.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-compass.html">the way forwards</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.123029 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:14:33 -0800 AlistairReynolds antiscience ArthurCClarke books ChinaMieville fantasy literature PaulKincaid Physics pseuodoscience science sciencefiction simondunn Space Stars TheNineBillionNamesOfGod writing Artw http://www.metafilter.com/86203/An%2DEpidemic%2Dof%2DFear%2DWired%2Dtakes%2Don%2Dthe%2Dantivax%2Dmovement <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1">Wired profiles pediatrician Paul Offit,</a> co-creator of the <a href="http://www.rotateq.com/"> RotaTeq</a> rotavirus</a> <a href="http://www.merckvaccines.com/rotateqProductPage_frmst.html">vaccine</a> and a primary target of the <a href="http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/">anti</a>-<a href="http://www.generationrescue.org/">vacci</a><a href="http://www.autismone.org/">nation</a> <a href="http://www.putchildrenfirst.org/">movement</a>. Dr. Offit published a book,“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231146361/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Autism’s False Prophets</a>” in 2008 but <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/health/13auti.html?_r=1">didn't tour,</a> because he had <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/165644">received too many death threats</a>. The profile by <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/who-is-this-amy-wallace-anyway/">Amy Wallace</a>*, is part of a collection of articles on vaccinations, including "<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience_misinformants">The Misinformants: Prominent Voices in the Anti-Vaccine Crusade</a>", "<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience_argument">How To Win An Argument About Vaccines</a>", and "<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/a-short-history-of-vaccine-panic/">A Short History of Vaccine Panic</a>". <small>*Wallace is <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/10/amy_wallace_and_the_anti-.php">receiving hate mail</a> for it. She's been twitting about that <a href="http://twitter.com/msamywallace">here</a>.</small> <small>(Vaccines: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69700/Settlement-in-case-of-child-who-developed-autistic-symptoms-after-being-vaccinated">Previously</a> on <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/79194/Earth-Not-Flat-After-All">MeFi</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86203 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:48:51 -0800 anti-intellectualism antiscience antivax autism controversy fear medicine offit parenting science vaccinations wallace wired zarq