European Scientists Poo-Poo Baby Bottle Risk

Environmentalists are going bonkers over bisphenol-a (BPA) a chemical component of polycarbonate plastic bottles. A new report by a coalition of environmental groups, The Work Group for Safe Markets, calls for a moratorium on the use of the chemical.
STATS gets a lot of stick for challenging these kinds of reports, along the lines of [...]

How to Tell a Good Scientist from a Bad Scientist

In a series of interviews with New York Times science writer Gary Taubes on scientificblogging, psychology professor Seth Roberts turns to the question of how do you go about making the judgment as to whether a scientist is trustworthy, especially when the topic is controversial. Taubes responds:
I’m a stickler about the use of words like [...]