Interruption...

So I'm getting married at the end of the month. Not surprisingly, my wedding entails lots of travelling, organizing, stressing, honeymooning, etc. As a result, blogging until about April 5th will be sparse. Please don't break teh internets while I'm away...

Carnival of the Africans #14

Simon of Amanuensis has put up the 14th edition of the Carnival of the Africans, our humble effort to promote scientific and skeptical blogs from Africa. There are a bunch of very interesting posts to feast on, so do have a look! A selection: Mark from the Grumpy Old Man on the Lancet's retraction of the Wakefield paper and on a quack witchdoctor; Angela from The Skeptic Detective on the South African Society for Paranormal Research; and Simon himself on fMRI evidence for inequality aversion. My contributions to this edition were on deference and the importance of blinding...

We do need hosts for future editions of the carnival, so if you'd like to take on the responsibility (it's fun...), have a look at the schedule, and drop me an email!