Court masters deny vaccine-autism tie WASHINGTON - Thousands of parents who alleged that childhood vaccines had caused their children to develop autism are wrong and not entitled to federal compensation, a special court ruled yesterday in three decisions with far-reaching implications in a bitterly fought medical controversy.By: Shankar Vedantam|Date: Feb 13, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. left the hospital yesterday, smiling and waving, to continue his summer vacation in Maine, but faces a decision on whether medication will be needed to control the kind of seizure he had Monday afternoon.By: Robert Barnes and Shankar Vedantam|Date: Aug 1, 2007

...You are fully responsible for the content that you post. Who's Blogging » Links to this article By Shankar Vedantam Monday, February 18, 2008; Page A03 Through much of the Republican presidential primary, Sen. John McCain...

...Kevin Sites, freelance multimedia journalist, Los Angeles. Marcela Valdes, freelance writer, Annapolis, Md. Shankar Vedantam, national science reporter, The Washington Post. ------ Nieman Fellows in Global Health Reporting: Helen...Date: May 20, 2009

...Kevin Sites, freelance multimedia journalist, Los Angeles. Marcela Valdes, freelance writer, Annapolis, Md. Shankar Vedantam, national science reporter, The Washington Post. ------ Nieman Fellows in Global Health Reporting: Helen...Date: May 20, 2009

...including dictatorships, forced immigration and magical realism. Valdes is the 2010 Arts and Culture Nieman Fellow. Shankar Vedantam, national science reporter, The Washington Post, will study solutions to collective action problems and explore...

...including dictatorships, forced immigration and magical realism. Valdes is the 2010 Arts and Culture Nieman Fellow. Shankar Vedantam, national science reporter, The Washington Post, will study solutions to collective action problems and explore...

...stock market, experiments show that once people know something, they readily believe they knew it all along. Shankar Vedantam's article is about Iraq war opposition, but the hindsight bias comment is obviously relevant to baseball play...

...Find Opposite Biases." I wrote a little about this yesterday and hope to write some more. Let's start with Shankar Vedantam's argument: In one especially telling experiment, researchers showed 144 observers six television news segments...