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April 30, 2008

Is NIAID Focusing on the Wrong Resistant Organisms?

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Needed: more focus--money--on the ESKAPE organisms.

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April 29, 2008

An Open Letter to Chris Mooney

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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?

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April 28, 2008

Ben Stein: This Is What Academic Intimidation Looks Like

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Prick the skin of the 'kind-hearted' fanatic, and you will always find the boot, the jack, and the fist.

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April 27, 2008

"A New Class of Antibiotics?": A Cautionary Tale

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Moral of the story--don't believe every breathless medical breakthrough drug development story you read.

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April 26, 2008

Alfred Lord Tennyson Led to Nazism...

Category: Humor

or so John Wilkins tells me.

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April 25, 2008

Terrorist Tularemia Attack?

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Responding to bioterrorism requires a public health, not security infrastructure.

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April 24, 2008

Some Good News About Vancomycin Resistant MRSA

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It's very hard to evolve.

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April 23, 2008

Senator Clinton Embraces Anti-Vax Autism Woo

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Trying to have it both ways on autism and vaccines.

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April 22, 2008

Liberals: Embrace Local Government?

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From the wayback machine: Democrats need to support their supporters.

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April 21, 2008

While I'm Away on Vacation...

Category: Boston

Some advice for visitors to Boston.

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April 20, 2008

Expelled and the Challenge to Population Genetics

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What? You thought I was serious? I'm Mad, not crazy.

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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.

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April 17, 2008

The Definition of Insanity Is When...

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the New York Times gives David Cay Johnston a buyout, and keeps Maureen Dowd on payroll.

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Orange Juice: Is It Possible for the Entire Traditional Media to Jump the Shark?

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Media analysts wonder why newspapers and TV news is losing audience share.

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April 16, 2008

Industry Pay, Doctors, and Bloggers

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One doctor decided to stop taking industry consultant fees because of a blogospheric outburst.

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April 15, 2008

Resistant Bacteria Stick Around for a Long Time

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Resistant E. coli don't go away very quickly.

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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.

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April 13, 2008

Some Sunday Science Blogwhoring

Category: Lotsa Links

Here are some science links that you might have missed.

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Income Inequality, Magic Ponies, and the Presidential Candidates

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A sane political system would give voters the option to seriously address income inequality.

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April 12, 2008

Falsification, Likelihood, and Intelligent Design Creationism

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How did intelligent design creationism become the null hypothesis?

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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.

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April 10, 2008

Wars of Choice and Crimes of War

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We're all supposed to agree that Good people can advocate horrendous policies and still not be responsible for what they cheered on.

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Nonoptimal Virulence and Avian Influenza

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There's no reason to think that an epidemic influenza strain won't become more deadly.

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April 9, 2008

John McCain Remembers the Alamo

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Mashing up two websites.

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Streptococcus, Antibiotic Resistance, and Israelis...Oh My?!

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Good evidence that prescribing practices influence antibiotic resistance.

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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.

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Nesse and Stearns on How Evolution Is Used in Medicine

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Evolutionary medicine matters.

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April 7, 2008

The Other Finding from the Florida Sex Ed Survey

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Will the Drug Warriors now support sex-ed?

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A Problem with the NIH Roadmap and Cross-Institution Research

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Krensky has OPASI. So when Krensky speaks, you listen.

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April 6, 2008

Some Sunday Science Links

Category: Lotsa Links

Here are some science links for you.

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After 40 Years of Wandering Through a Racist Desert...

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Maybe 2008 is the year the majority of us get to leave this desert of hate.

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April 5, 2008

Saturday Sermon: How We Create Amalek

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Changing a call to hate the other to a call for moral responsibility for the other.

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April 4, 2008

Remembering MLK

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Why King was in Memphis, TN.

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One Sleazy Reason Why the Social Security Disability Fund Isn't Doing So Well

Category: Social Security

More nationalizing of risk, privatizing profits.

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April 3, 2008

Framing and the Low Information Voter

Category: Framing

Even if you can get them, do you really want them?

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Pity the Poor Super-Rich

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I'm surprised the housing meltdown hasn't been blamed on poor, single mothers. Everything else is.

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April 2, 2008

Two Depressing Infectious Disease Anecdotes

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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:...

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All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter: The Return of an Old Clade of E. coli O157:H7

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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.

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April 1, 2008

Send the Stimulus to the States

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A good strategy to weather a recession does not involve closing schools and laying off teachers.

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Using Phylogenetics to Understand Medical Microbial Ecology

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Using evolutionary biology to understand the human microbiome.

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