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While most media commentators obsess over the "news" that Diane Sawyer will be replacing Charlie Gibson on ABC World News, there are at least some observers who remain more concerned with content. The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne weighs in this...
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The news that embryologists can get back to the business of finding cures of debilitating diseases, and that science will no longer be held hostage to fundamentalist fervor should be welcomed.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:57 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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For presidential contenders to even hint that there might be cause for not vaccinating is irresponsible in the extreme.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:25 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Just in case you needed a reminder of what's wrong with America:...
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:06 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I feel compelled to help spread this a widely as possible, in hopes of doing my bit to inoculate the country against the threat posed by a McCain presidency.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 8:31 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Many of us here at ScienceBlogs like to point out that most"alternative" medicines are basically placebos masquerading as the genuine article.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 9:59 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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In a world in which ends can be measured. some, though not all, means are justified.
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Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 10:46 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A little press-commentary comparison shopping is in order following the recent news of a breakthrough in the effort to produce stem cells without using embryonic cells. I promise this won't take long. First, the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer, who announced...
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So Michael Moore the documentarian takes on CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta the medical science guy in the former's first appearance on the network in three years, arguing that the latter committed libel by claiming the filmmaker "fudged the facts" in...
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What about the consequences of planting yet another abortive seed of hope in the minds of parents desperate to find a reason for the incredible hardship that is autism?
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