Skepchick Quickies 12.5
- Is Revlon filled with cancer-causing crap? – Fighting scary claims with science. (And I generally recommend the Brightest Bulb blog if you like to see this sort of article.)
- Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims – Useful or non-scientists who want to evaluate the claims made by a study. From Markis.
- Woman-as-cat in anti-suffragette propaganda – “Cats and dogs are gendered in contemporary American culture, such that dogs are thought to be the proper pet for men and cats for women (especially lesbians). This, it turns out, is an old stereotype.” From Mary.
- American schools vs. the world: expensive, unequal, and bad at math – So, no change then.
“Cats and dogs are gendered in contemporary American culture, such that dogs are thought to be the proper pet for men and cats for women (especially lesbians).” Um, what? This is all news to me.