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Enough about the Straight Bullshit Express: here's an election I can believe in. In Massachusetts' Second Suffolk District, the Democratic primary for State Senate features Sonia Chang-Diaz and Dianne Wilkerson. For the very little that it's worth, the Mad Biologist endorses Sonia Chang-Diaz.
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Jonathan Eisen's been blogging the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting in Marco Island. Here's what he's written so far:
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Let's call him Marco. Marco came from outside the moutainous city of Quito to work on a boat as a 'pepinero' (a sea cucumber fisherman) back in 2003 (though it is illegal to hire outsiders as fishermen). He had never been diving before, but the other fishermen gave him a crash course. He stuck…
First the Wakefield scandal on a bogus link between MMR vaccine and autism, then the Chang scandal where a program error led to several erroneous x-ray crystal structures and five retractions. The first one caused by greed, the second by sloppiness.
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Great novel that should be bought for every religious friend you have. Saving Bill Murray by Joshua Lorenzo Newett