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It's yontif, and we don't blog on yontif, so here are some more highlights from 2009: On Work and Time in Science The Gates Arrest: The Police As an Occupying Forceâ Unscientific America: On Planets and Theories Some More Thoughts About Unscientific America: What Are We Trying to Communicate? So,…
I don't think I really recognized how much stuff I've avoided dealing with by only having boys until I read _Cinderella Ate My Daughter_ by Peggy Orenstein.  You see, despite the fact that I joke about living in the testosterone house, or being the only female in a house of guys (until C. and K.…
We are on record as favoring single-payer health care and taking certain things like vaccines out of the market system, but beyond that we don't do much health care politics here. But we have opinions, like everyone does, opinions formed by working for more than four decades within the health care…
We've been rather kind to Senator Charles (Chuck) Grassley in the past. Yes, he's a right wing Republican with some really odious ideas, ideas for which he deserves to be criticized. But he's also been a champion of the Federal False Claims Act which has encouraged and protected whistleblowers to…