Tangled Bank #114 is Live
The latest edition of the blog carnival, the Tangled Bank #114 is now up over at Science Made Cool. Go check out the latest in science blogging from the past fortnight.
They have included my own recent post on using the new Vaccine/Autism study, which further confirms the LACK of any connection whatsoever between the two, to teach science students about the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy" in pseudoscience.
"post hoc ergo propter hoc" means "after this, therefore because of it", and refers to the phenomenon where something will happen to someone, then something else will happen, and the person will erroneously conclude that the first caused the second.
An example: a child gets a vaccination, then a child develops autism, then the parent says "vaccines caused my child's autism." This is false logic. The causation could be true, but studies would have to prove it. In the case of autism/vaccinations, this has been repeatedly falsified.
Tangled Bank #113: A Labor Day Carol
The next edition of the Tangled Bank blog carnival, #113, is now up over at En Tequila Es Verdad.
The intro is one of the more entertaining carnival intros I've read as of late.
My favorite part (aside from the many awesome links within it), is the description of the time-traveling narrator's pant besuited appearance before Charles Darwin:
Roughly an hour's worth of explaining how a woman in pants waving a monstrous electronic paddle had come to appear in his study ensued before I obtained an answer to my original question.
Go check it out. My own post on a cool little piece of evolution research is included.