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		<title>A Brief Career in Science Journalism</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2011/09/27/a-brief-career-in-science-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Howl&#8217;s moving castle, Chez Belm houses a collection of autonomous processes over which I have little control. In the (almost) sixteen years that I&#8217;ve lived in the house, I have noticed that books and other printed matter eventually collect on the third floor in the room behind my office. In order to create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bent Out of Shape</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/12/07/bent-out-of-shape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He Who Will Not Be Ignored came home yesterday with another reading comprehension homework assignment, the usual &#8220;read the story and answer questions&#8221; exercise that bores him to tears. Sometimes the story is just that &#8211; a short piece of fiction &#8211; but sometimes it&#8217;s a factual article or news report. Regardless of the content, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cookies Are Not Causation</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/10/22/cookies-are-not-causation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He Who Will Not Be Ignored will not eat M&#38;M cookies; he believes that they make him sick. It&#8217;s not a decision he arrived at arbitrarily, it is, in his mind, supported by hard evidence. Four years ago, while driving him home from a doctor&#8217;s appointment, I offered to buy He Who a cookie as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Didn&#8217;t Buy a Lottery Ticket Today</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/10/08/i-didnt-buy-a-lottery-ticket-today/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.belm.com/2010/10/08/i-didnt-buy-a-lottery-ticket-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest you think the title implies that I buy lottery tickets on other days, let me disabuse you of that notion: I don&#8217;t buy lottery tickets. Ever. I shouldn&#8217;t have to elaborate the usual statistical arguments, because this isn&#8217;t really about winning the lottery, it&#8217;s about a day full of coincidences. I had reconnected with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Downfall of Vaccine Denial</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/30/the-downfall-of-vaccine-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought the vaccine denial movement was immune to the Downfall video meme, you&#8217;re in for a surprise. As you can see here, der Führer had a rough time of it after learning about a Danish study demonstrating no causal link between vaccines and autism. It&#8217;s worth it to hear him scream: It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Scientifically Unsupportable&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/16/scientifically-unsupportable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, special masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims released their findings on the second phase of the Omnibus Autism Proceedings, and found no evidence of a causal link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. (The first phase, decided last year, addressed the claim that the MMR vaccine caused autism. ) Test cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try Reason, Not &#8220;Everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/05/try-reason-not-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Time magazine published &#8220;The Autism Debate: Who&#8217;s Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?&#8221; As much as I&#8217;d like to rant about her, as I&#8217;ve done before, instead I&#8217;ll call your attention to this paragraph, buried halfway into the article: There are dark murmurings from scientists and doctors asking, Was her son ever really autistic? Evan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irresponsible and Dishonest</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/02/irresponsible-and-dishonest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s falsification of data linking vaccines and autism, calling his behavior &#8220;irresponsible and criminal.&#8221; Last week the General Medical Council, the British medical licensing body, arrived at the same conclusion: In reaching its decision, the Panel notes that the project reported in the Lancet paper was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate, or Shinola?</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2009/10/21/chocolate-or-shinola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taza Chocolate sent me an email today announcing the availability of this year&#8217;s Special Edition Stone Ground Chiapan Chocolate. I&#8217;ve tasted last year&#8217;s edition (is &#8220;edition&#8221; really the appropriate description for a short-run foodstuff?), it&#8217;s definitely good chocolate, but the stuff costs $9.50 for a three-ounce bar. I&#8217;ll buy a bar or two this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science and the Deity</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2009/10/20/science-and-the-deity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the Deity, Mr. Deity. If you haven&#8217;t heard of him, visit his web site and get caught up on his doings. Recently he&#8217;s been looking for a science advisor, and may have found one in PZ Meyers, biologist and writer of the blog Pharyngula: &#8220;Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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