Saturday, August 15

In the news:

Faulty memoir insults readers, genre

Imagine if, after you read his book “It’s Not About the Bike,” you found out that Lance Armstrong never had cancer, just a bad case of the flu that caused him to lose a little bit of weight. Read more...





Scandal shouldn’t mar research field

The recent revelation of the South Korean stem cell scandal is not only a setback in the quest for the holy grail of medicine ““ that stem cells from human embryos can be produced to replace diseased or injured human tissue ““ but also harms the credibility of the entire area of research. Read more...