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1. June 14, 2012 03:00 PM

   Covering the animal within

   Zoobiquity promotion belies activity in comparative medicine

   By Curtis Brainard

   The promo machine for an upcoming book, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing, by UCLA cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers, has been in high gear all week. It started with a 4,100-word excerpt in The New York Times Sunday Review, and continued with spots on NPR and ABC News. The...

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2. November 14, 2012 12:00 PM

   Salazar threatens to ‘punch out’ reporter

   Interior Secretary angered by tough questions at Obama campaign event

   By Curtis Brainard

   Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar threatened to “punch out” a journalist for having the temerity to ask him questions about public policy at an Election-Day event in Colorado last week. Salazar was at an Obama campaign office in Fountain, CO, as part of a tour through the state to support the president and encourage voter turnout. Dave Philipps, a...

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3. August 10, 2012 04:30 PM

   Sex and sensationalism

   Researchers accuse press of ‘licentious’ coverage of animal studies

   By Curtis Brainard

   “The media loves to sensationalize research” on same-sex sexual behavior among animals, according to an analysis published this week in the journal Nature. A pair of biologists from Australia and the UK surveyed 48 newspaper, magazine, and online articles written about 11 scientific papers on the subject, and concluded that journalists have a tendency to produce tawdry coverage that is...

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4. September 6, 2012 04:45 PM

   Yao Ming and the elephant massacre

   Recent coverage of the African poaching crisis strikes at supply and demand

   By Curtis Brainard

   After weeks of the media mostly failing to realize why basketball star Yao Ming’s trip to Kenya was fairly important endangered species news, the terrifying surge in elephant poaching in Africa is finally getting the treatment it deserves. On Tuesday, The New York Times published a 3,100-word, front-page article by Jeffrey Gettleman that spotlighted the startling involvement of African militiamen...

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