Is NIAID Focusing on the Wrong Resistant Organisms?
Needed: more focus--money--on the ESKAPE organisms.
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Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address. I don't like anonymous trolls.
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- Thing You Don't Expect to Hear in Boston
- Influenza and Money
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- One Quibble with (One of) Angry Bear's Rules for Discussing Climate
- How to Buy 'Liberal' Media Pundits
- Creationism and Molecular Evolution
- The Silly Distinction Between CA-MRSA and HA-MRSA
- Clinton Is in Real Trouble with the Democratic Base
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April 30, 2008
April 29, 2008
An Open Letter to Chris Mooney
Do you think there's a single evolutionary biologist who is happy with public opinion regarding evolution and creationism? But you're not giving us concrete solutions. Perhaps the communication problem has something to do with the communicators too?
Posted by Mike at 11:12 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2008
Ben Stein: This Is What Academic Intimidation Looks Like
Prick the skin of the 'kind-hearted' fanatic, and you will always find the boot, the jack, and the fist.
Posted by Mike at 11:54 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2008
"A New Class of Antibiotics?": A Cautionary Tale
Moral of the story--don't believe every breathless medical breakthrough drug development story you read.
Posted by Mike at 11:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2008
Alfred Lord Tennyson Led to Nazism...
Category: Humor
or so John Wilkins tells me.
Posted by Mike at 11:06 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2008
Terrorist Tularemia Attack?
Responding to bioterrorism requires a public health, not security infrastructure.
Posted by Mike at 11:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2008
Some Good News About Vancomycin Resistant MRSA
It's very hard to evolve.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2008
Senator Clinton Embraces Anti-Vax Autism Woo
Trying to have it both ways on autism and vaccines.
Posted by Mike at 11:16 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2008
Liberals: Embrace Local Government?
From the wayback machine: Democrats need to support their supporters.
Posted by Mike at 11:20 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 21, 2008
While I'm Away on Vacation...
Category: Boston
Some advice for visitors to Boston.
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2008
Expelled and the Challenge to Population Genetics
What? You thought I was serious? I'm Mad, not crazy.
Posted by Mike at 11:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 18, 2008
Roger Ebert to Return to Film Criticism
Category: Movies
After fighting cancer, Ebert's back at the movies. Maybe he'll review Expelled.
Posted by Mike at 11:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 17, 2008
The Definition of Insanity Is When...
the New York Times gives David Cay Johnston a buyout, and keeps Maureen Dowd on payroll.
Posted by Mike at 5:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Orange Juice: Is It Possible for the Entire Traditional Media to Jump the Shark?
Media analysts wonder why newspapers and TV news is losing audience share.
Posted by Mike at 11:17 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2008
Industry Pay, Doctors, and Bloggers
One doctor decided to stop taking industry consultant fees because of a blogospheric outburst.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2008
Resistant Bacteria Stick Around for a Long Time
Resistant E. coli don't go away very quickly.
Posted by Mike at 11:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 14, 2008
Torture: I Hate It When I'm Right
Category: Torture
Of course torture was a categorized and routine activity. It has to be, or it can't work.
Posted by Mike at 11:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2008
Some Sunday Science Blogwhoring
Category: Lotsa Links
Here are some science links that you might have missed.
Posted by Mike at 7:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Income Inequality, Magic Ponies, and the Presidential Candidates
A sane political system would give voters the option to seriously address income inequality.
Posted by Mike at 11:24 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2008
Falsification, Likelihood, and Intelligent Design Creationism
How did intelligent design creationism become the null hypothesis?
Posted by Mike at 10:57 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 11, 2008
From the Austringer's Lips to the Intelligent Designer's Ears...
Category: Creationism
I would love to hear sworn testimony as to their intent in interviewing Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers and others under the guise of a different movie concept.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 10, 2008
Wars of Choice and Crimes of War
We're all supposed to agree that Good people can advocate horrendous policies and still not be responsible for what they cheered on.
Posted by Mike at 5:01 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nonoptimal Virulence and Avian Influenza
There's no reason to think that an epidemic influenza strain won't become more deadly.
Posted by Mike at 11:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 9, 2008
John McCain Remembers the Alamo
Mashing up two websites.
Posted by Mike at 4:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Streptococcus, Antibiotic Resistance, and Israelis...Oh My?!
Good evidence that prescribing practices influence antibiotic resistance.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 8, 2008
Help Kay Weber Fight Sexist Pigs at Fermilab
Category: Basic Human Decency
Kay Weber, a scientist at Fermilab, has filed a sexual harassment suit against the Department of Energy.
Posted by Mike at 4:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nesse and Stearns on How Evolution Is Used in Medicine
Evolutionary medicine matters.
Posted by Mike at 11:14 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 7, 2008
The Other Finding from the Florida Sex Ed Survey
Will the Drug Warriors now support sex-ed?
Posted by Mike at 5:09 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Problem with the NIH Roadmap and Cross-Institution Research
Krensky has OPASI. So when Krensky speaks, you listen.
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 6, 2008
Some Sunday Science Links
Category: Lotsa Links
Here are some science links for you.
Posted by Mike at 7:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
After 40 Years of Wandering Through a Racist Desert...
Maybe 2008 is the year the majority of us get to leave this desert of hate.
Posted by Mike at 10:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 5, 2008
Saturday Sermon: How We Create Amalek
Changing a call to hate the other to a call for moral responsibility for the other.
Posted by Mike at 11:17 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 4, 2008
One Sleazy Reason Why the Social Security Disability Fund Isn't Doing So Well
Category: Social Security
More nationalizing of risk, privatizing profits.
Posted by Mike at 1:03 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 3, 2008
Framing and the Low Information Voter
Category: Framing
Even if you can get them, do you really want them?
Posted by Mike at 5:03 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pity the Poor Super-Rich
I'm surprised the housing meltdown hasn't been blamed on poor, single mothers. Everything else is.
Posted by Mike at 11:06 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 2, 2008
Two Depressing Infectious Disease Anecdotes
Over at denialism blog, PalMD has two posts which, to me anyway, are related. The first has describes how sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are actually treated with antibiotics:...
Posted by Mike at 5:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter: The Return of an Old Clade of E. coli O157:H7
I never (EVAH!) thought I would describe the biology of E. coli with a Tolkein poem, but it is a good analogy for the 'spinach' clone of E. coli O157:H7.
Posted by Mike at 11:17 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 1, 2008
Send the Stimulus to the States
A good strategy to weather a recession does not involve closing schools and laying off teachers.
Posted by Mike at 4:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Using Phylogenetics to Understand Medical Microbial Ecology
Using evolutionary biology to understand the human microbiome.
Posted by Mike at 11:08 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
