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scientificactivistprofile.gif A postdoc by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his research in protein structure and function get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.

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John McCain:

You Can Put $150,000 Worth of Clothes and Makeup on a Horribly Unqualified VP Candidate, but....

Category: John McCain

You know the rest.

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Obama and McCain Highlight Health Care Plans in NEJM

Category: Election 2008

Obama and McCain lay out their plans in a more formal setting.

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Barack Obama: Health Care Is a Right

Category: Barack Obama

Obama nails the issue in the latest presidential debate.

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Economists Overwhelmingly Agree that Obama Is Stronger on the Economy

Category: economics

A revealing poll by The Economist

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Obama on Science and Technology

Category: Barack Obama

Although lacking detail in some areas, his answers are on target and are indicative of sound scientific advising.

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Being a POW Does Not Automatically Qualify You to Be President

Category: Election 2008

Am I taking crazy pills, or do people honestly believe that saying that being a prisoner of war doesn't automatically qualify you to be president is the same as attacking someone's service record? Because, this latest media flare-up over Wesley...

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Obama's Support of Corn Ethanol Unlikely to Change

Category: Barack Obama

We're going to have to be realistic here.

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McCain's Own Agents of Intolerance

Category: John McCain

As the media circus over Jeremiah Wright continues, it should give us pause that the media hasn't decided to focus on John McCain and his embrace of a wide range of religious bigots. Although McCain once called these men "agents...

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The Gas Tax Suspension: Political Pandering of the Worst Kind

Category: Election 2008

This morning, I had to wake up to another article about John McCain's and Hillary Clinton's proposal to temporarily waive the gas tax this summer. That's it. I'm just going to have to come out and say it: this is...

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John McCain Embraces Scientifically-Disproved Vaccine/Autism Link

Category: John McCain

Welcome to Crankville, Senator.

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On Drugs, Circumcision, and John McCain

Category: HIV/AIDS

Antiretroviral drugs taken prophylactically protecting against HIV, some doubt about the effects of circumcision, and a blast from the past with John McCain

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McCain on Condoms for HIV Prevention: ???

Category: public health

Not that HIV/AIDS is an important issue or anything... but it appears that Republican presidential hopeful John McCain hasn't been thinking much--or at all--about HIV prevention. The New York Times blog The Caucus reports that when asked about the subject...

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"Moderate" Republicans Pander to the Religious Right

Category: Republican Party

As 2008 approaches, many of the Republican contenders for the Presidency will try to paint themselves as moderates. An article in today's Washington Post, though, underlines why we should be weary of their empty rhetoric. Romney, who is expected to...

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