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• February 10, 2010

• Terra Sigillata

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  Are testosterone-deficient men responsible for shortages of a life-saving drug for women with breast cancer? A physician's claim that "between 100 and 1,000 times more men than women" are on the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole raises questions behind a worldwide shortage of the drug. Are testosterone-deficient men in effect killing women with breast cancer?

• White Coat Underground

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  More on injustice in Texas---now with quackery? There have been some disturbing rumors circulating about Dr. Rolando Arafiles, the Texas doctor who enlisted a local sheriff to harass and ultimately prosecute local nurses. The nurses filed anonymous complaints with the state medical board about Arafiles' practices, and...

• Respectful Insolence

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  Report a bad doctor to the authorities, go to jail? The trial, day two While I'm at it blogging about the trial of Anne Mitchell, the nurse who is being maliciously prosecuted for having reported a doctor who happened to be buddies with the County Sheriff, I thought it would be worthwhile to post...

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Part 4 Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones. Description:...

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  New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...

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  Dr. Rolando Arafiles: Antivaccine rhetoric, colloidal silver for the flu, and Morgellons disease The case in west Texas: It really is worse than I thought. Anyone there wanting to stand up for science-based medicine needs to be very afraid.

• February 9, 2010

• The Questionable Authority

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  The Winkler County Nurse Trial, An Alleged Massive Conflict of Interest, and Morgellons As some of you might know, there is a very scary criminal case currently underway out in West Texas. A registered nurse named Anne Mitchell is currently standing trial. She's been charged with misuse of official information, which is...

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  What's the buzz?: Synthetic marijuana, K2, Spice, JWH-018 A (currently) legal form of cannabimimetic compounds come under fire in America's heartland.

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  Cambodian Attitudes and Mental Health on the Eve of the Khmer Rouge Trials At Pizza Lunch talks, we hear a lot about efforts to decipher the physical world. But what about psychological realms? How do you measure them, especially on a large scale among people scarred by trauma? At noon on Thursday, Feb....

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  Corrected by Dr. Paul Offit Orac admits a mistake. It's rare, but it happens.

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  Swing and a miss: Yet another HIV-1 downer Acyclovir treatment in HIV-1, HSV-2 positive patients doesnt decrease HIV-1 transmission.

• Framing Science

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  AU School of Communication Teams with PBS Frontline to Examine The Safety of Regional Air Carriers A joint project between Frontline and American University....

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Very Cool Staphylococcus aureus Interactive Surveillance Site We actually now have a strategy for limiting or even stopping the spread of MRSA in Europe: this is why surveillance matters.

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  Chronic illness discussion continues with Dave Munger on living with AIDS An unexpected outpouring of comments on living with chronic illnesses brings me to recommend Dave Munger's thoughtful new project, The Daily Monthly

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Part 2 Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones. Description:...

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  Differences between CAM practice and primary care practice If there is one aspect of "complementary and alternative" medicine (CAM) that can puzzle advocates of science-based medicine, it's why, given how nonsensical much of it is given that some of it actually goes against the laws of physics (think...

• February 8, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  How I Know the Universe is Screwing With Me... I know that Mama has been mildly absent, little muffins. Things here have just been so scientifically busy. Now I am convinced that the science universe is screwing with me. Allow me to explain how... Dr. Isis is a smoking...

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  A travesty in Texas There's a prosecution going on in Texas that sounds so corrupt, and could have such a chilling influence on the pursuit of quackery nationwide, that it cannot be ignored. I urge you to read the story in the Times, but...

• Mike the Mad Biologist

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  Obama to CDC Efforts in Antimicrobial Resistance: Drop Dead The Obama Administration has decided to massively cut the funding for the CDC's antimicrobial resistance and vaccination efforts. I thought this was the kind of anti-science bullshit that the Bush Administration did.

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Part 1 Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones. Description:...

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  Best. Conspiracy. Theory. Ever. Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey surpass even themselves in conspiracy mongering about vaccines.

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  Report a bad doctor to the authorities, go to jail? It might really happen for Anne Mitchell, RN in Winkler County, Texas A trio of good ol' boys tries to send an uppity nurse to jail because she had the temerity to report a bad doctor to the Texas Medical Board.

• February 7, 2010

• Effect Measure

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  The dangers of weed Nothing like a healthy stew.

• Terra Sigillata

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  Meditations on those with chronic illnesses I find it remarkable that an illness having nothing to do with the CNS can wreak such havoc on cognition, concentration, and motivation.

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  Interview with Michael Specter at ScienceOnline2010 (video) Part 2 Sabine Vollmer interviews Keynote Speaker Michael Specter for Science In The Triangle Blog....

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus