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Links 6/21/11

By mikethemadbiologist on June 21, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Today's falsehood: Correlation Implies/Does Not Imply Causality
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in history--part 1
Synthetic biology: Parlor trick, or proof of concept?
The German E. coli outbreak: 40 lives and hours of crowdsourced sequence analysis later
Deadly Fungus Invades Frogs' Last Safe Haven in Central America

Other:

Get Radical: Raise Social Security
The ACORN Precedent
Close Encounters of the Tax Myth Kind
Who should we listen to, Marcy Kaptur or Our Davy Brooks? (Yes, but who'll GET listened to?)
All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup
Retail Sales Falter - Significant?
Politico: "Conservative Groups Pay For Talk-Radio Plugs"
Did Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Jon Huntsman Commit Voter Fraud? Maybe rich Republicans, not ACORN, should have been the targets of voter fraud prevention efforts. (I don't actually think they're running a voting scam, but a state-based tax scam)
Bachmann's History

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