Sometimes bad is bad
Genomicron offers a recipe for how to write a bad science story and pretty much nails it. I plan on sharing this with my students next semester.
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I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome." Pages
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September 5th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Hilarious - although, to be fair, many of these rules are propagated by scientists in the primary lit too.
(Hell, #3 is rampant).