If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.
Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.