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Yearly Roundup

By mikethemadbiologist on December 24, 2009.

Since it's my birthday (and we do not work on this holy day), I'm giving links to some posts that got a lot of traffic or links (somebody liked them....). Enjoy:

Scientific Consensus Is a Process, Not a List of Names

To Restore Science to Its Rightful Place, We Need to Redefine Elitism

A Question for Science Journalists: What About the 'Other Side' of Science?

Note to Obama: You Need to Rebuild Trust Within Your Own Party

Why Were the Donut Fearers Ever Taken Seriously?

Obama and Self-Inflicted Negotiation: More of the Same?

Jindal Is Smart? Really?

How Is Turning Away the Mentally Ill a Good Solution?

How to Deal with Foreclosed Home Owners

Krugman Discusses the Mad Biologist: Now If I Had Only Put That on My Blog

Update on the Housing Post

This Is What Class Warfare Looks Like: The So-Called Free Market Edition

Big Sh-tpile and Why Geithner's Plan Won't Work

To Be Scientifically Literate, You Do Have to Know Things

Kristof on MRSA: Good, but There's Better Evidence

Biotech and Business Journalism: It's the Business Model, Stupid

I Told You the Pork Lobbyists Would Comment on Kristof's Column

Very Wealthy People Can Be Very Stupid: The Obama Tax Plan Edition

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