Annalee Newitz Quotes
Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
Newitz, Annalee. "Is Evolutionary Psychology Just a Giant Scam?" io9, Gawker Media, 2013.
The FBI’s self promotion over the years is legend. However they have covered up some major shortcomings. One of the most serious was the famous FBI Technical Laboratory which states and cities often use for their case investigations. However, in 1997 some scientists claimed the FBI was not very scientific and its methods were shoddy. The agency denied the accusations but the Justice Department Inspector General conducted a major investigation and found even more major problems that the critics had charged. Later, the American Academy of Science conducted a study and found that the FBI had unscientific procedures and staff who were not scientifically competent. Progress in remedying the situation has been slow as can be seen from {584974}
This unfortunately happens in Congress all the time. A good example is {640730}.
Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, who has written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015 Newitz was Editor-in-Chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.
