Vicki Oransky Wittenstein

I continue to be saddened by the sheer number of medical experiments doctors performed on powerless people who did not give informed consent.  Gina Kolata’s article in the New York Times October 17th about Skid Row alcoholics who agreed to… Read the rest >>

Planets are everywhere! A team of scientists operating NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope announced the detection of an astounding number of new planets — 1,235. In a front page article in the New York Times, reporter Dennis Overbye quoted Geoff Marcy,… Read the rest >>