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Melissa Lafsky

Posts By This Author

Economic Crises (Like This One) Lead to Higher Murder & Suicide Rates

Reality Base | July 8th, 2009 in Science Goes to Washington | 569 Comments »

Say It Ain’t So: New Yorker Publishes Misleading Climate Piece

Reality Base | April 1st, 2009 in Climate Change | 127 Comments »

Is “Train More Scientists” the Answer to Our Economic Woes?

Reality Base | March 27th, 2009 in Health Care, Science Goes to Washington | 260 Comments »

Weekly News Roundup: The Ethics of Eight Babies

Reality Base | January 30th, 2009 in Climate Change, Energy, Health Care | 211 Comments »

“PopeTube” Launches, Brings New Holiness to Internet

Reality Base | January 23rd, 2009 in Science & Religion | 777 Comments »

Weekly News Roundup: Let There Be Stem Cell Trials!

Reality Base | January 23rd, 2009 in Biotech, Energy, Stem Cells | 799 Comments »

Will an Obama Administration Be Good for Women in Science?

Reality Base | January 22nd, 2009 in Science & Gender, Science Goes to Washington | 280 Comments »

Welcome President Obama! Now About Those Stem Cell Laws…

Reality Base | January 20th, 2009 in Biotech, Health Care, Science Goes to Washington, Stem Cells | 206 Comments »

The Inauguration Will Be Televised…And Facebooked, and Twittered, and Texted

Reality Base | January 20th, 2009 in Science Goes to Washington, The 2008 Election | 1,152 Comments »

Weekly News Roundup: Birds and a Plane

Reality Base | January 16th, 2009 in Science Goes to Washington, The 2008 Election | 163 Comments »

Drug Industry 1, Country 0: Big Pharma Can Now Hawk Unapproved Drugs

Reality Base | January 14th, 2009 in Health Care | 316 Comments »

Illegal Immigrants, Beware: Satellites May Be Tracking You

Reality Base | January 13th, 2009 in Science Goes to Washington | 838 Comments »

Will Obesity Regulation Turn the U.S. Into a Police State?

Reality Base | January 13th, 2009 in Science Goes to Washington | 174 Comments »

One Religion that’s Actually Embracing Science: Buddhism

Reality Base | January 12th, 2009 in Science & Religion | 531 Comments »

Ok, We Admit It: Bush Hits Ocean Conservation Out of the Park

Reality Base | January 9th, 2009 in Science Goes to Washington | 583 Comments »

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      Reality Base is a blog about the interplay between science and politics.

      Melissa Lafsky is DISCOVER's deputy Web editor. A former practicing attorney in New York City, she has been an associate editor at The Huffington Post and the editor of The New York Times's Freakonomics blog. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Post, and other publications.

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