Why Is the TEM-1 Beta-Lactamase So Common?
One word: ampicillin.
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Recent Posts
- "Community Organizers" Is a Dog Whistle
- Why Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Must Incorporate Genetics
- Palin Slashed Funding for Food Banks
- From Food Stamps to the Presidency? Maybe a Safety Net Isn't TEH EVIL
- Treating Viral Infections Doesn't Just Lead to Antibiotic Resistance, It Harms Your Patients
- The Democratic Convention Speech You Should Hear
- Choosing Palin: McCain's Words Have No Meaning
- Driftglass Identifies the Real Swing Voters of the 2008 Election
- McCain Picks Creationist for Running Mate (Why You Should Always Read ScienceBlogs First)
- Palin and Alito: The No-Name Strategy
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July 31, 2008
July 30, 2008
E. coli Virulence Genes: Not Happier Than a Pig in Sh-t
A possible way to reduce virulent E. coli on farms.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 3 Comments •
July 29, 2008
The Gang of 500 Mediocrities (Our National Political Press Corps)
Do campaign reporters routinely huff airplane glue? Because that's the only explanation for this level of stupidity.
Posted by Mike at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments •
July 28, 2008
The NIH Grant Review Process Is Statistically Unsound?
Who woulda thunk it? To obtain reliable scores with a precision of 0.01, a proposal would require 38,416 reviewers.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 5 Comments •
July 27, 2008
God Is a Doorknob?
Category: Religion
Getting the power of God without God.
Posted by Mike at 11:56 AM • 10 Comments •
July 26, 2008
9/11 Truthers and Creationists: Birds of a Feather...
are stupid morons together.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 14 Comments •
July 25, 2008
Malaria Treatment Increases Ciprofloxacin Resistance
Chloroquine therapy leads to increased ciprofloxacin resistance. This is why we need new classes of antimalarials that kill malaria in novel ways.
Posted by Mike at 10:05 AM • 5 Comments •
July 24, 2008
The Confusion About the Social Security 'Crisis' Is Economists' Fault: More on Sizzle
Using Sizzle's logic, economists are to blame for the misunderstandings surrounding Social Security.
Posted by Mike at 11:02 AM • 5 Comments •
July 22, 2008
Economic Realities Versus Fantasy Politics
Category: Economics
Matt Taibbi describes the intersection of crony capitalism and economic inequality.
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 5 Comments •
July 21, 2008
Theopolitical Conservatives and the Great Con
There are a lot fewer 'real' evangelicals that we're led to believe.
Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM • 9 Comments •
July 20, 2008
Quote of the Day: Leaving Iraq Isn't Admitting Defeat...
Category: Iraq
...and you'll be surprised who said that.
Posted by Mike at 11:40 AM • 4 Comments •
July 19, 2008
Skeptics Circle #91 Is Up
Category: Bloggity Blog
Go check it out.
Posted by Mike at 5:11 PM • 1 Comments •
Why Are Orthodox Jews So Different on Israel Compared to Other Jews?
Obama has strong support among every denomination except for the Orthodox, where McCain cleans up. But, like every other political poll, there's no way to find the correlations.
Posted by Mike at 11:25 AM • 5 Comments •
July 18, 2008
The Real Cost of Roads: $2.22 per Gallon...
at least in Houston, Texas. No transit system, whether it be rail, automobile, or aviation, can survive without massive subsidies.
Posted by Mike at 11:08 AM • 8 Comments •
July 17, 2008
I Don't Like the Word Darwinism Either
Olivia Judson's right: get rid of the term Darwinism. Unfortunately, the creationist morons won't agree.
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 4 Comments •
July 16, 2008
David Brooks on Genetics and Human Intelligence...
In some conservative circles, claiming a genetic basis for intelligence is all the rage. Thankfully, one prominent conservative isn't doing so.
Posted by Mike at 4:55 PM • 14 Comments •
Healthcare Cost Containment Versus Privatization Uber Alles
Mandating crony capitalism is just as bad, if not worse than healthcare 'socialism.'
Posted by Mike at 11:01 AM • 2 Comments •
July 15, 2008
Sizzle: Needs More Steak
Randy Olson's Sizzle isn't bad, but it's not that good either.
Posted by Mike at 5:00 AM • 0 Comments •
July 14, 2008
Widespread Spread Cephalosporin Misuse in Agriculture Stopped...
seven years later?
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 2 Comments •
July 13, 2008
Sunday Sermon: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is...
the Crazy Twenty-Sevens.
Posted by Mike at 10:56 AM • 4 Comments •
July 12, 2008
The Traditional Media Death Spiral Watch: The Brad DeLong Edition
The Washington Post deathwatch continues.
Posted by Mike at 11:12 AM • 4 Comments •
July 11, 2008
Healthmap.org: It Will Make You More Paranoid Than the Weather Channel
After watching the Weather Channel for a while, you actually start to worry about that cold front moving through some other part of the country. Well, I've got an even better way to drive yourself nuts about scary things that won't affect you.
Posted by Mike at 12:18 PM • 2 Comments •
July 10, 2008
Some Thoughts About STAP
Jonathan Eisen has an informatics pipeline for analysis of 16S rRNA sequence. The Mad Biologist has opinions and questions.
Posted by Mike at 11:09 AM • 6 Comments •
July 9, 2008
Wildfires and the Failure of Our Security Infrastructure
More DHS follies. In this case, what we have here is a failure to communicate. From a Californian living near the wildfires (the good folks at skippy don't like capital letters):...
Posted by Mike at 10:55 AM • 4 Comments •
July 8, 2008
Another Good Question About Faith-Based Initiatives
Money is fungible, so how is the government not supporting sectarian dogma?
Posted by Mike at 10:57 AM • 6 Comments •
July 7, 2008
Some Thoughts About the Open Access Kerfuffle
Category: Publishing
The anger can largely be reduced to one word: Elsevier.
Posted by Mike at 11:00 AM • 4 Comments •
July 6, 2008
The Lenski Affair: When Will the Evolution Concern Troll Brigade Arrive?
I'm surprised that I haven't seen a spate of posts from certain quarters proclaiming that the Lenski-Schlafly dustup is good for creationists.
Posted by Mike at 11:07 AM • 19 Comments •
July 5, 2008
Instead of Fighting Terrorists Over There, Why Don't We...
stop rapists over here.
Posted by Mike at 5:27 PM • 0 Comments •
July 4, 2008
Review Articles or Review Chapters?
What's the incentive for writing a non-peer reviewed book chapter?
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 1 Comments •
July 3, 2008
Porn, Stimuli, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
If you're not for the pornographers, then the terrorists win? Or something.
Posted by Mike at 2:50 PM • 7 Comments •
Nematodes and Crohn's Disease?
Category: Worms
Do parasitic worms lessen inflammatory bowel disease?
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 5 Comments •
July 2, 2008
Should Tibor "Teddy" Rubin Be President?
Medal of Honor recipient Tibor Rubin is a true hero without any doubt. But would that make him a good president?
Posted by Mike at 4:39 PM • 1 Comments •
A Biologist Confuses Artificial and Natural Selection
Natural selection can be a result of human activities.
Posted by Mike at 11:03 AM • 10 Comments •
July 1, 2008
The Epidemiology of Bee Colony Collapse
How mathematical epidemiology can be used to better understand bee colony collapse.
Posted by Mike at 5:19 PM • 2 Comments •
DHS, Seizing Laptops, and Mission Creep
Category: Terrorism
Wasn't DHS supposed to stop terrorists?
Posted by Mike at 4:37 PM • 4 Comments •
Appointees to Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives: Anti-Semitic and Corrupt
Who woulda thunk it?
Posted by Mike at 10:51 AM • 10 Comments •
