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February 13, 2009

Special Court Says Vaccines Are Not To Blame for Autism

“It’s a great day for science, it’s a great day for America’s children when the court rules in favor of science.”—Dr. Paul Offit on yesterday’s special court ruling. Yesterday, we posted about the Times of London story about Andrew Wakefield’s...

February 12, 2009

Links Between Vaccines and Autism Were Fabricated

In Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Paul Offit looks at the history of autism research and shows the ways in which some researchers have misled the public by asserting a connection between...

February 12, 2009

Signs of Spring

While the weather in New York City seems to be returning to more February-like temperatures, the fact that our Spring 2009 books are shipping out to store is perhaps a sign that Spring is just around the corner. We had...

February 11, 2009

A Portrait of Mississippi

Mississippi has long had the reputation for being one of the poorest and most stratified states in the United States but how accurate is that assessment in 2009? According to the just published A Portrait of Mississippi, the state ranks...

February 10, 2009

The International Film Guide Launches at the Berlin Film Festival

Amid the movie stars and acclaimed directors populating the 52nd Annual Berlin Film Festival was the launch of the The 45th edition of the International Film Guide: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema. The International Film Guide includes a...

February 9, 2009

One Hundred Fifty Years Without Darwin Is Too Long!

The following post is by Donald Prothero, author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. You can also read his earlier post, Evolution: The Fossils Say Yes. As we mark the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth on...

February 6, 2009

Happy Birthday Charles!

February 12, 2009 marks Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. That’s a lot of candles on his cake. Donald Prothero, author of Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters is having...

February 2, 2009

NGOs in Gaza: Humanitarianism vs. Politics by Hugo Slim

Hugo Slim, author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War, recently published an essay in Open Democracy arguing that the noble urge of aid agencies to support Palestinians is too often compromised by a blind eye to uncomfortable...

January 29, 2009

Siddarth Kara Discusses Sex Trafficking on Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal

In another fascinating interview, Siddarth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery discusses why sex trafficking is flourishing, explains what steps can be taken to curtail it, and his own experiences talking with former and current...

January 29, 2009

Obama Reading Recommendations for China

It seems as if everyone has reading recommendations for President Obama and earlier this week Pankaj Mishra weighed in on the subject at The China Beat. One of Mishra’s recommendations was I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by...

January 28, 2009

Why Israel Has Failed to Stop Terrorism.

Yesterday, we ran an interview with Ami Pedahzur about his new book The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. In the interview, Pedahzur explores why Israel has failed to stop terrorism despite the amount of resources it has...

January 27, 2009

Interview with Ami Pedahzur

The following is an interview with Ami Pedahuzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other intelligence agency? Ami Pedahzur: No. never. I was a senior...