Rachel Jones is Principal Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute. Her research focuses on (but is not limited to) abortion in the United States.
To my surprise, my recent article in the journal Contraception on the effectiveness of withdrawal in preventing pregnancy unleashed a mini-storm of commentary in the blogosphere.
Antiabortion activists often attempt to capitalize on the fact that the public and many policymakers cannot distinguish between well-conducted studies and those that fall in the "junk science" category.
