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.
It's yontif, and we don't blog on yontif, so here are some more highlights from 2009:
The Gates Arrest: The Police As an Occupying Force
Unscientific America: On Planets and Theories
Some More Thoughts About Unscientific America: What Are We Trying to Communicate?
So, What Should Scientists Communicate?
Egg Donation, Stem Cell Research, and Lady Bits
Misunderstanding Palin and 'Palinism': It's the Politics of the Blood
A Significant, but Simple, Medical Advance: Hair Sheep Blood Agar Plates
Stimulus Package to Cities: Drop Dead?
On Scientific Embargoes: What Exactly Would Journalists Investigate?
"When Does the Greed Stop?", We Ask the Other Side
The Reality of Health Insurance Copayments: The Insulin Edition
Reducing Quinolone Antibiotic Use Lowers Resistance
Note to Senate Dems (and Candidates): Stop Insulting Us with Filibuster Scare Tactics
Genetic Risk Prediction: The Difference Between Diagnostics and Research
How Creationism (and Other Idiocies) Are Mainstreamed
KPC: The Other Potential Pandemic--And We're Completely Ignoring It
Unscientific America and Positive Versus Normative Statements
Why Do You Do Science (or Other Stuff)?
The Future of Bacterial Genomics: It's Not the Sequencing, It's the...
Obesity Makes People Stupid...About Heritability
What Procedure Is More Common Than Heart Surgery and Hip Replacement Combined?
