Blogroll have been temporarily removed

I have temporarily removed the blogroll, as it was out of date, with many dead links, and because it linked to blogs that I no longer wants to be associated with.

There are diferent views on blogrolls and on whether they can be considered an endorsement or not. Well, I am of the opinion that while I don't have to be in complete agreement with everything a blogger on the blogroll does, and can disagree on things like e.g. politics and religion, I am implicitly endorsing the behavior or style of the blogs on my blogroll.

This means that while I will link to Republican blogs or blogs run by religious bloggers, I won't link to blogs which contains racist, bigoted, or misogynist language, and which allows for a comment culture where that sort of language is tolerated. Some of the blogs which used to be on my blogroll, has unfortunately gone down that road.

Lazy linking - science and skepticism edition

A few science and skepticism links that I thought I'd share.

* J. David Jentsch ask people in the LA area to Stand up for science on April 8. Jentsch is one of the scientists who has been targeted by animal rights terrorists because of his animal research.

* A new study shows that Spanking sparks aggression, does little to reduce behavior problems in children. One of the techniques studied (spanking) is illegal in Denmark, but the others are certainly still used.

* An interesting take on the use of statistics in science: Odds Are, It's Wrong. Personally, I don't find the article entirely convincing. Yes, it's true that there are possibilities of false positives and negatives, but it seem to me that enough studies should clean up these problems. I find the complains about meta-studies puzzling, and while I can see the author's point in a perfect world, we have to work with the material at hand. Still, it's a good article, and I think scientists conducting studies would do well to keep its points in mind.

* I can't remember where I found this link (almost certainly at a feminist blog), but I thought that it was well worth sharing. It's an article in Stanford Magazine about Stanford professor Clelia Mosher who probably was the first to do research into female sexuality: The Sex Scholar.

* Occasionally I come across people who seem to think that the cause of ice ages are unknown, which puzzles me, since I thought it was well-established that they were caused by shifts in the Earth's axis. Apparently this wasn't quite as well-established as I thought, or at least not for as long as I thought - I came across a ScienceDaily article from August 2009 which explains that this was now the established explanation: Long Debate Ended Over Cause, Demise Of Ice Ages? Research Into Earth's Wobble

* David Colquhoun tells us that the University of Buckingham does the right thing. The Faculty of Integrated Medicine has been fired. One less place educating people in woo.

* Over at Alice in Galaxyland there is a great report about a recent event at Skeptics in the Pub in Wincester: Skeptics in the Pub: Unnatural Predators by Jourdemayne at Winchester. Certainly makes me wish I had been there (though I am happy to have been spared the journey described).

* And finally, a shout-out to a fairly new blog. When I was in Perth in January, I met up with the Perth Skeptics on the last day I was there (which is when they participated in the 10²³ mass suicide by homeopathy event). While I was there, I talked a bit about skepticism in Denmark (not much of it around) and blogging. One of the participants was thinking about starting his own blog, and after my talk he took the plunge - so I present to you Friend of Reason. There is some good stuff there.

Updating my blogroll - D through F

Another part of my blogroll updated. If you see any mistakes, or if you know a blog which would fit in, please let me know.

• D-squared digest


• The Daily Dish


• Daniel W. Drezner


• Darksyde's Dairy (Daily Kos)


• Dave Home's Archosaur Musings (new)


• De Rerum Natura (new)


• Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog (new)


• Deep Sea News (updated)


• Deep Thoughts and Silliness


• Deltoid


• Denialism blog (new)


• Developing Intelligence (new)


• The Digital Cuttlefish (new)


• Dinosaur Tracking Blog (new)


• Discovering Biology in a Digital World (new)


• The Disenchanted Forest (new)


• Dispatches from the Culture Wars (new)


• Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde (new)


• Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge (new)


• Dr. Val and The Voice of Reason


• Dreams and hopes of a (post doc) scientist (new)


• DrugMonkey


• Dubito Ergo Sum (new)


• Earthman's Notebook (new)


• Economic Woman (new)


• EconoSpeak


• Ecstathy (new)


• Effect Measure


• Eric Orchard


• ERV (updated)


• Eschaton (new)


• The Evilutionary Biologist (new)


• Evolutionblog


• Evolved and Rat/i/onal (new)


• Evolving Thoughts


• Ezra Klein


• Faux Real


• Freespace (new)


• Feline Formal Shorts (new)


• FemaleScienceProfessor (new)


• Feminist Gamers


• Feminist Philosophers


• Feminist SF - The Blog!


• The Feminist Underground (new)


• Feministe


• Feministing


• Fetch me my axe


• Finally, a Feminism 101 blog


• The Flying Trilobite


• The FOGG Blog (new)


• Forms Most Beautiful


• Foxmaths! 2.0


• Frank Vilhelsen's blog (new) - Danish


• Fresh Brainz


• Friendly Atheist


• Frogs and Ravens


• Further thoughts (new)

Updating my blogroll - A through C

I am working on updating my blogroll, but it might take a while. So until I get around to putting the new one up, I thought I'd post it as I progress my way through it.

Today I bring the letters A, B, and C.

• "ae" and sometimes "ä"


• A Blog Around the Clock


• A Blog From Hell (new)


• A Common Language (new)


• A Fistful of Euros


• A Few Things Ill Considered (new)


• A girl? On the internet??? (new)


• a k8, a cat, a mission. (new)


• A Lady Scientist (new)


• A Mad Tea-Party (new)


• A Photon in the Darkness


• A View from A Broad


• Aardvarchaeology


• abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigzag journey into the open (new)


• Academia and me (new)


• Accidental Remediation (new)


• Across the Bilayer (new)


• Adventures in a Queer Science (new)


• Adventures in Ethics and Science


• Aetiology


• Afarensis


• Against the Grain (new)


• Alas, a blog


• All-Too-Common Dissent (new)


• All of My Faults Are Stress-Related (new)


• Almost Diamonds (new)


• The Alternative Scientist (new)


• American Street


• Amused Muse


• Anarchorants (new) - French/English


• Andrea's Buzzing About: (new)


• Angry Bear


• The Angry Astronomer (new)


• The Angry Black Woman


• Angry Brown Butch (new)


• Angry Gay Black Canadian man (new)


• Angry Toxicologist


• Answers in Genesis BUSTED! (new)


• Anthropology.net (new) - discontinued


• The apostate (new)


• appletree


• Archaeoporn (new)


• Archy


• Astroblog (new)


• The Atheist Experience (new)


• Atheist Girls (new)


• Atheist in a (Metaphorical) Foxhole (new)


• Atheist Revolution


• The Austringer (new)


• Autism Diva


• The Autism Hub - The Very Best in Autism Blogging


• Autism Street


• Bad Astronomy


• Bad Science (new)


• Balloon Juice (new)


• The Barefoot Bum (new)


• Bartholomew Cubbins on Autism


• bastard.logic (new)


• Behe Fails Weblog (new)


• Better burn that dress, sister. (new)


• Biblioblography


• Bioephemera (new)


• The Bird's Brain (new)


• Bitch, Phd.


• bjkeefe (new)


• Black Triangle


• bLaKtivist (new)


• Blogfish (new)


• Blogs | Bitch Magazine


• Blue Lab Coats (new)


• Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal


• BraveNewClimate.com (new)


• The Bronze Dog


• Built on Facts (new)


• Butterflies and Wheels (new)


• The Calladus Blog (new)


• Cephalopodcast (new)


• Channel N (new)


• The Cheerful Oncologist - discontinued


• Clashing Culture (new)


• Cocktail Party Physics (new)


• The Conscience of a Liberal


• Conspiracy Factory (new)


• Correcting the AIDS Lies


• Corrente


• Covetable: Or, Stuff I Want (new)


• Creek Running North


• Crooked Timber


• Crooks and Liars (new)


• Crowded Head, Cozy Bed (new)


• Cuddly Atheism (new)


• CultureCat


• The Curvature

If I have overlooked a blog that you think I would enjoy, feel free to post it in the comments.

Why didn't anyone tell me this?

Mighty Reason Man has started blogging again at Very Very Happy.

I was trying to find an old post of his, and saw that he has been blogging for the last few months.

Welcome back Mighty Reason Man - you have been missed.

Blogroll issues

As people might have noticed, I've got a quite long blogroll here, which I unfortunately only rarely update. This is due to the fact that I manually go into the html and change it to include the new/updated links, which is a little too time consuming.

I'm sure that there are easier ways to do this, even in blogger, and would love to get any suggestions.

Until that happens though, I guess I won't be updating the blogroll very often, and that's a pity, since there are so many good blogs out there that I come across all the time.

To compensate for this, I'm going to make some posts once in a while, where I point out blogs that I think are worth reading.

These link-posts will probably be themed (e.g. feminist blogs, science blogs etc.), but should certainly not be considered an indication that those blogs are the only ones worth reading on those issues (or that they only deal with those issues).

Blogroll update

At long last I have gone through my blogroll, and updated it. Mostly I've added some new ones, updated some, and removed a few dead links. The updates have either been to a newer link, or with a newer title - if both have changed, I consider it a new blog.

I've removed a blog from the list, even though the link wasn't dead - the reason was that I can't any longer endorse it, even implicitly, since the authors apparently think it's fine to write inflammatory posts which they later claim to be a social experiment. Be that it might be, I consider it trolling, which I don't support.

Next to some of the blogs still on the blogroll, I've written "discontinued", which is an indication that the blog is either officially closed, or there haven't been any activity there for several months. These blogs are candidates for purging the next time I update my blogroll (which is getting too long).

I recommend people to go through the blogs, which are a mixture of blogs posting about skepticism, science, feminism, economics, and to a lesser degree politics.

Much needed new blog in town

As most of my readers are probably aware, there is a great new group blog called Science Based Medicine.

It can be considered similar to blogs like The Panda's Thumb and RealClimate, both of which focuses on debunking pseudo- and anti-science related to a specific topic.

Science Based Medicine describes itself thus:

Science-Based Medicine is a new daily science blog dedicated to promoting the highest standards and traditions of science in medicine and health care. The mission of this blog is to scientifically examine medical and health topics of interest to the public. This includes reviewing newly published studies, examining dubious products and claims, providing much needed scientific balance to the often credulous health reporting, and exploring issues related to the regulation of scientific quality in medicine.

Another daily read is added to the long list.

Just a couple of quick notes

Currently my mail accounts are receiving mails very slowly, so if anyone has sent me anything, and I haven't reacted to it, that's probably why.

I've added a few more blogs to the blogroll - a couple of feminist blogs, a few science blogs, and a couple of outright atheist or progressive blogs. The blogroll is becoming a bit long, so maybe I should consider putting them on a seperate webpage someone. That might affect their influence on other blogs' rating though, so I probably won't do that any time soon.

The weather here in Denmark is somewhat on the wet and mucky side, so I don't really feel up to write anything meaningful. The drinking yesterday obviously hasn't got anything to do with that.

New blog added to blogroll

Normally I don't mention it when I add new blogs to the blogroll, since most of the blogs there are well-known to most already. However, since the newest blog on the roll is quite new, I thought I'd mention it.

Welcome to Angry Toxicologist

Self-described as

I am a Ph.D. scientist in the public health sector with a good amount of toxicology and regulatory knowledge. I’m not going to be dishing about projects I am privy to, but I am much freer to make my opinions known anonymously, than I could do in a completely public forum.

Although other topics will probably be brought up from time to time (Friday is no day for science), this blog will be focused on public health and the science behind it and will be written for the non-scientist without dumbing anything down. I feel that almost anyone can understand complex scientific topics, they just can’t get past the jargon. This isn’t a popular theory among scientists, or lay people for that matter, but I’m convinced I’m right. Due to my loneliness in this conviction, there is a lack of resources for non-scientists to learn about and discuss what is going on in the research and public health world. I hope we fix that.

I am already impressed by the posts already up, and am looking forward to what the future will bring.

Blogroll

As people might have noticed, I have now added a blogroll - this was very much prompted by this post by Lauren.

I have been meaning to put up a blogroll for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it before now.

The blogroll reflects which blogs I read more or less frequently, though I don't visit all of them daily (or even weekly in some cases). I'm sure I've forgotten some, and will make sure to update it as I remember them, or find new and interesting blogs.

There is not going to be regular purges or anything - blogs that goes on the blogroll stays there, even if I stop reading them regularly. The only reason I have for removing people from the blogroll, is if I start objecting to the content - and here I don't mean just that i just disagree.

If people feel that I have overlooked some great blogs, feel free to link them in the comments, and I'll check them out. So far I only link to blogs in English, though I might add a 'Danish blogs' section at some stage.