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By mikethemadbiologist on August 23, 2011.

Links for you. Science:

Warning: Killer fungi could run amok again
Republicans and Democrats Differ on Evolution
Sewage Treatment, Coral Disease, and Koch's Postulates
Racial Disparity in NIH Grants: Priority Scores

Other:

The Purpose-Driven Lie
Two bad polls for Obama (liberal blogs and the Cassandra complex)
Krugman and the Firebaggers: Hippie Punching Department
Print vs. Online: The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.
What the U.S. Can Learn from the Dutch About Teen Sex
Rick Perry's 'Texas Miracle' consisted of 125,000 new government jobs
Taxing Capital Gains at Ordinary Rates: Evidence Says Do It...So Does Buffet (Buffet would be an awful Treasury Secretary, but Bernstein's larger point is valid)
A Public Servant, Blogging and Tweeting Under His Own Name, Has Been Silenced By His Employers
No-sided bench returns to Jamaica Pond

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More sickening news (Crossposted from Pharyngula)

"New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/new-york-attorney-general-eric…
.....aaand another principled Democrat gets thrown under the bus.

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