ScienceBlogs Goes To War

In Sunday's NYT Magazine Virginia Heffernan dinged the twenty-odd science bloggers to leave ScienceBlogs over the drama now called PepsiGate. Money quote:

Clearly I've been out of some loop for too long, but does everyone takefor granted now that science sites are where graduate students,researchers, doctors and the "skeptical community" go not to interpretdata or review experiments but to chip off one-liners, promote theirbooks and jeer at smokers, fat people and churchgoers? And can...