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Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology by Geoffrey C. Kabat
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Health scares come and go, but they often have a tenuous scientific basis. Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist, systematically rips through cancer alerts that overrode scientific rigor in recent decades. In so doing, he dispels the dubious science underlying the scares and explains how public confusion can come about. A […]
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The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the Sky’s Most Brilliant Stars by Fred Schaaf
John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2008, 281 p., $19.95.
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Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 321 p., $25.
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From Science News Letter, September 27, 1958
PARKINSON’S DISEASE NO LONGER INCURABLE — Parkinsonism, or shaking palsy, is no longer a hopeless, progressive, incurable disease. A five-year follow-up study of 700 brain operations for Parkinsonism revealed that 80% of the properly selected cases found relief from the tremor, rigidity, deformity and incapacitation of parkinsonism after basal ganglia surgery. Furthermore, these symptoms can […]
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Science Future for September 27, 2008
October 3 Grid Fest at CERN in Geneva marks LHC’s computing grid going live. Visit lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/lhcgridfest October 12–18 Earth Science Week 2008, sponsored by the American Geological Institute, celebrates “No Child Left Inside.” Visit www.earthsciweek.org October 20–21 Orionids meteor shower expected to peak. Visit www.imo.net/calendar/2008
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Letters
A climate tipping point In Janet Raloff’s article “Forest invades tundra” (SN: 7/5/08, p. 26), there seems to be a paradox. Raloff says that the albedo from normal snow coverage of the tundra “helps maintain the region’s chilly temperatures,” implying that the coverage also preserves the mats of plant matter. A little later in the […]
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Corporate campaigns manufacture scientific doubt by David Michaels
From the September 27, 2008 issue of Science News.
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- Neuroscience
Breaking the Barrier
A technique combining ultrasound pulses with microbubbles may help scientists move therapeutic drugs across the brain’s protective divide.
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- Life
This bite won’t hurt a bit
A team dissects the physics of a mosquito bite, working to find a way to design gentler needles.
