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Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of an academic researcher and educator who holds a PhD in Pharmacology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, academic career development, medical journalism and, occasionally, making and listening to music and wine appreciation for the monetarily-challenged.

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Blogroll

Science and Such

• Academic Secret
• Adventures in Ethics and Science
• Aetiology
• The Antidote
• Astroblog
• BBGM
• Brass and Ivory
• Blue Lab Coats
• Chemical Musings
• Cocktail Party Physics
• Complex Medium
• Creek Running North
• The Daily Transcript
• Days of Science
• DrugMonkey
• Drugs and Poisons
• Eastern Blot
• Evolved and Rational
• ERV
• Female Science Professor
• The Futile Cycle
• Herbal Science Research
• Highlight Health
• Homebrew and Chemistry
• John Hawks
• The Inverse Square
• JuniorProf
• Lab Cat
• The Loom
• Medical Education Blog
• Medical Writing, Editing, & Grantsmanship
• Open Reading Frame
• Org Prep Daily
• Pharyngula
• Pooflingers Anonymous
• Prometheus
• Public Rambling
• The Pump Handle
• Retrospectacle
• Rheumination
• Sandwalk
• Science After Sunclipse
• Science & Politics
• SciencePunk
• Science Roll
• Scientific American Blog
• Science and Progress
• Shrimp and Grits
• second order approximation
• Sorting Out Science
• Tales from the Microbial Laboratory
• Thesis - With Children
• Thus Spake Zuska
• The Tree of Life
• Twisted One 151
• Women in Science
• What You're Doing is Rather Desperate
• YoungFemaleScientist




Medicine

• Biomedicine on Display
• Blogborygmi
• Comarow on Quality
• The Cheerful Oncologist
• Dr. Charles (The Examining Room of)
• Emergiblog
• Health Care Renewal
• Kevin, MD
• Medpundit
• NeuroLogica
• Respectful Insolence
• Science Based Medicine
• Signout
• Surgeonsblog
• Unintelligent Design




Pharmacy

• The Angry Intern
• The Angry Pharmacist
• UK Community Pharmacist
• Pharmland Aggregator
• Secundum Artem
• Your Pharmacist May Hate You




Pharma & Health Biz

• DrugWonks
• In The Pipeline
• In Vivo Blog
• PharmaGossip
• Pharmalot
• Pharma Marketing Blog
• WSJ Health Blog




Consumer Health Resources

• FTC "Miracle Health Claims" site
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• The People's Pharmacy
• Sense About Science
• Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work




Politics and Social Justice

• Bitch Ph.D.
• Daily Kos
• driftglass
• Field Negro
• Keeping Up With the Jonzee
• Libertarian Girl
• Majikthise
• Pam's House Blend
• PhysioProf
• Rev-elution
• ThePoliticalCat




Other Friends

• arse poetica
• Blogging 101
• Citizen Will
• Home for Orphans
• Inalienable Rights
• mistersugar
• romania, summer 06
• Yesh.com




Other Stuff I Care About

• DonorsChoose
• Florida Citizens for Science (FCS)
• FCS blog
• Institute for Southern Studies
• Music Maker Relief Foundation
• SCONC
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Stetson Kennedy