"When I want to read a good novel, I write one"
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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Near the end of the "Ethics in Science" course I teach, we read the novel Cantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi. It does a nice job of tying together a lot of different issues we talk about earlier in the term. Plus, it's a novel.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It's simple--as long as one doesn't criticize the press corps from the left (doing it from the right is ok and accepted--you get to be the house liberal. Bob Somerby:
For starters: We of course have no way of knowing why the Post has dumped Dan Froomkin. Let's repeat that: We simply don't know.…