June 11th, 2011 → 11:16 am @ Seth Mnookin
I have a piece in tomorrow’s Washington Post Outlook section titled “An early cure for parents’ vaccine panic.” It outlines some thoughts I have about implementing a standard pre-natal appointment for parents to discuss vaccines and vaccine safety. In a recent post on my blog at the Public Library of Science, I started what I hope will be a fruitful back-and-forth for doctors and parents to share their thoughts on the issue. Check it out — I’d love to hear what you think.
Post: Parents and pediatricians: Do you think a pre-natal discussion about vaccines would help assuage fears? (The Panic Virus Blog, The Public Library of Science.)
Post Categories: Blog & Discussion
May 29th, 2011 → 8:12 pm @ Seth Mnookin
At the end of April, I moved my blog to the Public Library of Science’s Blog Network. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to keep readers of this site informed about what’s going on over there. There doesn’t seem to be any elegant solution…at least that I’ve been able to figure out.
So: from now on, those folks interested in The Panic Virus Blog should go here — and for those of you who prefer using RSS readers, you can get my feed here.
I’m also on Twitter, I recently joined Tumblr, and I’m going to be building up The Panic Virus Facebook page over the next few weeks — so there’ll be plenty of ways to keep up with what’s going on.
Post Categories: Blog & Housekeeping
May 5th, 2011 → 12:28 pm @ Seth Mnookin
In my haste to get through all of my work yesterday while simultaneously letting folks know about my move over to the PLoS Blog Network, I left off four (geesh!) ScienceOnline 2011’ers who are also on the site, namely…Emily Anthes (Wonderland) , Peter Janiszewski (Obesity Panacea) , Martin Fenner (Gobbledygook), and John Rennie (The Gleaming Retort). They’re all excellent, too…
Post Categories: Announcements & Housekeeping
May 4th, 2011 → 7:49 pm @ Seth Mnookin
Two days after The Panic Virus was released, I traveled to North Carolina’s Research Triangle for ScienceOnline 2011, aka #SciO11. The annual conference, which has been transformed into one of the premier science journalism events in the world, is the brainchild of Bora Zivkovic and Anton Zuiker — and it’s no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. (Thanks again, Rebecca Skloot and Ivan Oransky, for lighting a fire under my ass and making sure I attended.) (more…)
Post Categories: Announcements & Housekeeping
