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By mikethemadbiologist on December 20, 2009.

The snow is about done up here. Time for some links. Science:

MRSA Hospital Infections Can Cost $61,000 Each to Treat

MRSA Infections Nearly Doubled Over Last 10 Years: Study

Wegman's ghostwriter revealed

Why Progressives Would Be "Batshit Crazy" To Listen to Nate Silver On Health Reform

Health Care on the Road to Neo-Feudalism

Rules of Thumb

This isn't what we were promised

The GOP had at most 55 Senators during Bush's presidency

Greenwashing, Jared, and Stocks: Diamond Looks at Corporations and Sees Green

Negotiation 101.

Defending Christmas from Christians "defending" Christmas

Journalists Cheerfully Urinating On Senate Bill's "Ideological" Critics

Text of Jewish exorcism discovered

Why your boss is incompetent

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$61,000 per MRSA hospital infection? Big deal. I'm sure the pig industry executives can easily cover that with the money they saved by over-using antibiotics.

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