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Genital Wars: Bat Bugs
Researchers have discovered that bat bugs, an African insect, have developed an interesting evolutionary trait to protect themselves from....themselves. According to this article on nationalgeographic.com, bat bugs--a relative and fellow blood sucker to bed bugs--have a pretty gruesome mating ritual. Male bat bugs do not perform their coital duties like gentleman. Rather, they prefer to use their sharp, pointed members to stab their female partners right through their exoskeletons, injecting sperm directly into the bloodstream. As an evolutionary response to this, female bat bugs have…
63% of Election Coverage Focuses on Strategy Frame
As I have detailed in past studies and as we write in the cover article at The Scientist, the dominant frame that appears when science turns political is the "strategy" frame. This is a journalist driven package that ignores the substance of the scientific issue or debate and instead employs an election-like emphasis on personalities, tactics, and who's ahead in winning the policy battle. Often this package becomes prominent when coverage shifts from the science beat to the political beat. It is under these conditions that "false balance" is most likely to appear in coverage of science. The…
Historical Heat
I always like to consider questions of the day from the perspective of deep time. How hot is it these days? Look back 1.35 million years, and you can see it's pretty hot. Here's a chart, published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (free paper here). It combines historical records with geological evidence from the West Pacific to reach back 1.35 million years (kyr= thousands of years ago). The scale is telescoped near the right end, since recent warming has been so fast that it would be hard to make out its details otherwise. Two lines mark some average recent…
Genetic regulation of horse conformation
Tennessee Walking Horse photo by Just chaos. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7128467 In a new study published in Physiological Genomics, researchers explored the role of genetics in the conformation of Tennessee Walking Horses. In other words, how close each animal they sampled looked to an "ideal" Tennessee Walking Horse. According to Kylee Jo Duberstein (Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia), there are five criteria that are examined when evaluating the conformation of a horse. These include "balance, structural correctness, way of going,…
Beware of freezing hearts
Image of a hibernating thirteen-lined ground squirrel from University of Minnesota Duluth researcher Matthew Andrews. Thirteen-lined ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) are really cute when they hibernate (above). During torpor bouts, their body temperature decreases to a few degrees Celsius and their metabolism drops by as much as 95% with heart rates ranging from only 3-10 beats per minute. These bouts of torpor are interrupted by periodic arousals every couple of weeks during which their metabolism increases as body temperature elevates to 37 degrees Celsius. What is so…
Tennis meets perception science: Wait till McEnroe reads this
As an avid tennis player (though it's been a while), I had to love this and do: The busy bloggers at Neurophilosophy bring their usual lucidity to a paper by David Whitney, of the University of California, Davis, on how inherent dynamics of visual perception make line-call errors by tennis referees virtually inevitable. Check it out at You cannot be serious! Perceptual errors by professional tennis referees: The Men's Final of the 1981 Wimbledon Tennis Championships is one of the most memorable events in sporting history. John McEnroe, who was playing against Bjorn Borg, famously challenged…
Why a broad-based knowledge base is good for the media
You could call this a follow-up to the recent stories about CNN's spectacularly stupid decision to kill its science and technology unit, I suppose. I'm watching MSNBC right now, watching them cover the crash of a Marine FA-18 Hornet in a residential neighborhood in the Miramar, California area. They're speculating right now - actually, speculating is almost too nice a term - about the number of pilots on board the aircraft. Apparently, the military at the Pentagon is not sure about how many pilots there were, and are a little too busy actually trying to find out what's happening to spoon…
In the face of the ancient.
Ozymandias was a piker. He left us his legs, most of his face, and a clear statement of what he wanted to achieve. When you get right down to it, he's not much of an enigma. The people who built this left an enigma. Stonehenge was constructed to stand proudly forever, a monument to the greater glory of something, but we don't know what. Their engineering withstood the test of time. They - and their cultures - did not. Stonehenge stands today, on a plane covered with the barrows of the unknown lords of long forgotten peoples. It reminds us, far more than Shelley's statue ever could,…
Beatles' ode to John Howard
This is kicking a man when he's down, but the iPod popped this up to me last night, and I thought how appropriate it is to the election outcome: I'm looking through you Where did you go I thought I knew you What did I know You don't look different But you have changed I'm looking through you You're not the same Your lips are moving I cannot hear You voice is soothing But the words aren't clear You don't sound different I've learned the game I'm looking through you You're not the same Why, tell me why Did you not treat me right Love has a nasty habit Of disappearing overnight You're…
The "Central Debate" Over Global Warming Today
Juliet Eilperin, too, had a front page story in the Post yesterday about global warming. Alas, it wasn't as juicy as the Times piece about James Hansen (though it included a bit about him). It was mainly about the future risk of dangerous or abrupt climate change, but I found myself puzzled by the story framing introduced in the very first paragraph: Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend. Isn't Eilperin…
Grow up, Gateshead
How can you simultaneously be such leaders of advancing secularism and pandering cowards to the demands of religion? The police have arrested 6 people who posted a video of a Koran-burning. They did not break into a mosque and steal somebody else's book, they had their own copy and destroyed it … they did nothing illegal. But they're still arrested, and the police are making excuses. In a joint statement, Northumbria Police and Gateshead Council said: "The kind of behaviour displayed in this video is not representative of our community as a whole. Our community is one of mutual respect and we…
Health Care Debate, Part Two
In order to make sense of this post, you probably need to read href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/health_care_debate.php">Part One first. This is about an opinion piece that was published in the LA Times, written by some advocates from the rel="tag">Cato Institute: href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-tanner5apr05,1,6553974.story?ctrack=2&cset=true">Universal healthcare's dirty little secrets. Let me get one thing out of the way first. The title is bullshit. (Yes, that is how I really feel.) There is nothing dirty, there is…
How Freezing Arthropods taught me how to freeze embryos
They must have interesting Christmas parties: A tiny, six-legged critter that suspends all biological activity when the going gets tough may hold answers to a better way to cryopreserve human eggs, researchers say. Tardigrades, also called water bears, can survive Himalayan heights or ocean depths as long as they have moisture. When they don't, they produce a sugar, trehalose, slowly dehydrate and essentially cease functioning until the rain comes, says Dr. Ali Eroglu, reproductive biologist and cryobiologist at the Medical College of Georgia. Tardigrades are not alone in their amazing…
A change in NIH leadership
Elias A. Zerhouni, is stepping down as head of the National Institutes of Health. I heard about the announcement last night at the NERD meeting. Many were happy. Many blog commentators have added their two cents. Here are mine: 1) He's stepping down real soon (the end of October). Why so quickly? Did something happen? And why is this happening just before the elections and not closer to January when the next administration takes over? 2) Zerhouni is an MD, and under his direction there has been more of an emphasis on translational-research and less on basic research. (Read all about it at the…
Friday Sprog Blogging: you learned *what*?
Sometimes it feels to us like the parent's role in a child's education is one of eternal vigilance. It is possible, however, that the Free-Ride offspring are more actively engaged in messing with their parents' heads than are most kids their age. Dr. Free-Ride: Did you learn anything interesting today? Younger offspring: Uh huh. We learned about the quack and the moo. Dr. Free-Ride: About the duck and the cow? Younger offspring: Mmm-hmm. Dr. Free-Ride: (slightly impatient with the lack of content in the answer) So you learned that the duck and the cow are mortal enemies? Younger offspring…
What science, engineering, and medicine topics matter most to you?
I've been asked by the National Academies of Science to let you all know about a survey in which they'd like you to participate. Yes, you! Here's the blurb: What topics in science, engineering, and medicine matter most to you? The National Academies are interested in developing useful and engaging print and web-based educational materials on the topics that you'd like to learn more about. They invite you to participate in a brief survey. You can find that survey here. In the 2-minute survey you'll be presented with a list of topics and asked to select the five that matter most to you. At the…
Pulling in to STFU Station
So, I push you. Then, you push me. Then, I push you. Then, you push me. Then, I push you. Then, you push me. And I go "Hey, no pushing! Unfair!!!!" Or perhaps it goes like this, a little more complicated: Rebecca says something Stef says something PZ says something A buncha people say something Richard says something A buncha people say something And at any point in there, depending on which thing was said by which person, you yell "Hey, stop all the argument, we're done now!!! This has gone on too long!" It's like a New York subway. You get on the subway near the beginning, and that…
If you don't understand that there is message in the medium, then you may not be helping
Notice that I didn't say that the medium IS the message. Just that some of the message is in there. In the medium. I am forever amazed at how easily compelled my fellow skeptics, and/or my fellow atheists, and/or my fellow feminists, and/or my fellow anti-racists are to tell each other that they are doing it wrong. It was once said (by a straight white male Christian, probably), that "If half the people who make speeches would make concrete floors, they would be doing more good." Well, in an effort to promote sanity in this discussion, I'd like to point you to yet another voice in…
The new geo-historical curriculum
We've got conflicting chronologies: a young earth history that is virtually all relatively recent human history, and a scientifically accurate one that encompasses 4.5 billion years of geological and biological change. How to reconcile them? Well, if we just divide everything in geology and biology by about a million and splice it together with modern history, we get this vastly entertaining timeline. Here's a sample: A.D. 1066: William the Conqueror invades England by walking through northern France. A.D. 1215: Mega Fauna force King John to sign Magna Carta A.D. 1304: Plate armor…
The more things change...
John is sick and tired of antievolutionists. Who can blame him? As he points out, they are utterly immune to evidence or reason: I was wrong. Very wrong. Information isn't what makes people change their minds. Experience is, and generally nobody has much experience of the facts of biology that underwrite evolution. The so-called "deficit model" of the public understanding of science, which assumes that all they need is more information, is false. I could also point out that this is the very reason that alternative medicine to this day so regularly trumps scientific, evidence-based medicine in…
Monckton in Nexus
Christopher Monckton was talking about how he was going to get his silly Telegraph article published in a journal and now he has. It's been published in Nexus magazine, right between articles on UFOs and 9/11 conspiracy theories. The conspiracy theory folk seem to think that "An Inconvenient Truth" is part of the plan by the UN to take over the world. Monckton's is not the only article in that issue of Nexus that mentions Global Warming. There's also the interview on Time-travel portals and weather wars: Chemtrails were developed by Edward Teller and are basically the seeding of thousands…
The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number
JB: Gun-control proponents of some stature (e.g., Wolfgang and Cook) have reluctantly acknowledged the quality of Kleck's survey methodology Sorry, but Cook does have some problems with Kleck's methodology: "The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Gun Uses Per Year?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Spring 1997 Philip J. Cook, David Hemenway, and Jens Ludwig In recent years the self-defense uses of personal firearms has become a central issue in the debate over gun control. A widely noted estimate, based on a national survey, is that guns are used in legitimate…
What Is Wrong with The Crying Indian PSA?
As part of the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign, "The Crying Indian" spot first aired in 1971 and was shown throughout the 1970s and 80s. It won two Clio Awards and was named one of the top 100 advertising campaigns of the 20th Century by Ad Age Magazine: But research in psychology shows that this public service announcement (PSA) may not have been as effective as is widely believed. Research by Bob Cialdini at Arizona State University reveals that the PSA's main message -- that we should not litter -- may have been undermined by showing how many people do in fact litter. In his…
Drive-Through or Eat Out? How An Octopus Decides
It's amazing how much you can learn about an animal's mind by a simply watching it. Video 1: Gratuitous video of octopuses never hurt anyone. Maybe this will sate the Pharyngulites. In the late 1980s, a researcher named Jennifer A. Mather wondered about octopuses' use of spatial memory. This researcher and some volunteers did some skin-diving near Bermuda and observed octopuses going out in search of food. They noticed that sometimes after catching a tasty bit of chow, the octopuses ate out, but sometimes they'd take their snack to go and eat at home. And not only that, but it turned out…
10 Assertions about Evolution
Razib wants us to come up with 10 assertions of 10 words or less which we believe that the public should know about evolutionary science. He also wants us to come up with our list before looking at his list, which means we're left to figure out what the hell he means without seeing any examples. My stab at this is below the fold, but you should come up with your own list before reading Razib's or mine (according to Razib). 10 Assertions about Evolution, in no particular order: Common ancestry is supported by multiple, independent lines of evidence. Evolution is not an entirely random…
The Voodoo Theory of Trademarks
I love the way Cory Doctorow expresses it in this BoingBoing post: Now, whenever I write about trademarks, I get a bunch of emails asserting the voodoo theory of trademark: every conceivable use of a trademark has to be policed aggressively or you'll lose your trademarks forever. It's just not true. A trademark isn't the right to tell people what words they can use when they talk, and it isn't the right to tell dictionaries which words they're allowed to define. Voodoo trademarkism is a fairy tale that trademark lawyers tell their kids at night to reassure them that they'll have a healthy…
Mind Control and Severed Heads
It looks like there are a couple of interesting articles/TV shows out there in the last couple days highlighting some Omni Brain topics of the last few weeks. You know how I love the mind control people, It looks like the Washington Post has a great article on it... Mind Games New on the Internet: a community of people who believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. They may be crazy, but the Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that. And of course you all remember the severed dogs head! National Geographic is producing a show about the Russian research that came up…
Grim Death awaits you, O my children
Any parents out there? I bet you know the children's book, Goodnight Moon. I read it a few million times myself, with each kid as they came up through those preschool years, and I can still remember each page and how the little ones had to repeat each goodnight. Lance Mannion finds the strangest summary of the book, though—it's a dark nihilist tract that portrays the inevitability of death. Whoa. Heavy, man. The other obsessive touchstone of my children's early years was Pat the Bunny, where each page had a different texture glued on — a piece of sandpaper, a feather, some soft fluff — and…
Ryun sticks fingers in ears, says everything is super
In a debate on a local radio show, Jim Ryun reminds us again why it's important to replace him: Asked by a caller what the candidates would do about global warming, Ryun said: “Much of the global warming issue has been overplayed. We need to work with sound science,” he said. Boyda responded: “If you’re going to say global warming is a myth, then everything is going well in Iraq. We need to deal with reality.” Exactly right. Jim Ryun is from the Inhofe school of climate change denialists. In the real world, science is telling us a different story. The Proceedings of the National Academies…
Walking down a slope
The Times gets it wrong in criticizing the torture bill that the House passed yesterday. We aren't Rushing Off a Cliff, we're strolling, carefully and deliberately. Other than that, the editorial is dead on: Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans’ fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism that will make American troops less safe and do lasting damage to our 217-year-old nation of laws — while actually doing…
Professor Splash on Time Warp
Time Warp is this Discovery channel show that makes slow motion videos of stuff. Not too bad of a show (although I already talked about the samurai guy and "waves of energy"). Professor splash is this guy that jumps from really high positions and lands in 1 foot of water (and doesn't die). He was on Time Warp last night. If you are interested in this, I did an explanation of how it works in a previous post. The Physics of Professor Splash's Jump into 1 foot of water I haven't watched the whole show yet - but I did TiVo it. If there is any thing interesting to analyze, I will post that…
IDolators: Cancer, heart attack just as bad as murder
Krauze is confused. How could scientists think the extermination of the human race over the course of a few decades would be bad, bad, bad, while thinking that the gradual extinction of the species over the course of millions of years would be inevitable and of no great concern. It's the same reason that we think murder is a moral wrong, but having a heart attack or dying of cancer is not. Or rather, the reason we treat a 90 year-old dying of lung cancer as a sad part of existence, while we see a 30 year-old dying of lung cancer and think evil thoughts about tobacco companies. Species go…
Kids Are Mean (Especially If You're Fat)
It's easy to forget just how nasty kids can be. They might look cute, but they are such assholes. They prey on differences and disabilities, using taunts to generate solidarity. Middle school really is a terrible time. But I was pretty surprised to learn that American kids have a strong bias against overweight kids, and that this bias doesn't seem particularly sensitive to the obesity epidemic. You'd think that having more overweight kids in the classroom would somehow lessen the stigma of being overweight, but it doesn't: A 1961 study, replicated 42 years later, asked 10- and 11-year-olds to…
The Evolution of Lactose-Tolerance
My favorite foods all seem to involve lactose. Whether it's an aged goat cheese from the Loire Valley, or a stinky washed rind cheese, or a scoop of dark chocolate ice cream, I would probably starve if I was lactose intolerant. Now we know how lactose-tolerance evolved. Being able to digest milk is such a beneficial mutation that it appears to have evolved independently three different times: A surprisingly recent instance of human evolution has been detected among the peoples of East Africa. It is the ability to digest milk in adulthood, conferred by genetic changes that occurred as recently…
Violence Detectors
The WSJ reports today that the Dept. of Homeland Security has begun testing biometric devices designed to weed out airplane passengers with "hostile intent". The particular metrics are secret, of course, but they seem to be surprisingly crude. (They don't go much beyond measuring your blood pressure and pulse in response to questions. In other words, they are a crude kind of lie-detector.) Nevertheless, this does make me wonder about when fMRI machines will become tools of security. How long before the metal detector is replaced by a "hostile intent detector"? At airport security checkpoints…
Being Socratic is nothing without the hemlock?
Do people routinely assert that the tools and activities of your field are utterly worthless in real life? Do they go so far as to say that what you're doing is worse than nothing, because it distracts from the real tasks that need tackling? Or is it mostly just philosophers who get this kind of reaction? While there are some issues on which some philosophers focus that don't have what I'd describe as wide appeal (problem of universals, anyone?), I'd like to think at least some of what philosophy has to offer is portable to all manner of questions and thus could be useful in real life. But…
Self-Awareness and Obama
From the fanastic series of just-released Newsweek articles on the presidential campaign: Obama was something unusual in a politician: genuinely self-aware. In late May 2007, he had stumbled through a couple of early debates and was feeling uncertain about what he called his "uneven" performance. "Part of it is psychological," he told his aides. "I'm still wrapping my head around doing this in a way that I think the other candidates just aren't. There's a certain ambivalence in my character that I like about myself. It's part of what makes me a good writer, you know? It's not necessarily…
Getting Good
Before I became a writer, I assumed that some people (Nabakov, Updike, Bellow, etc.) were natural writers. They were born speaking in pithy prose, with taut sentences and interesting verb choice. But then, after reading all the usual Bellow masterpieces, I started reading his early novels. And I realized that even Bellow had to learn how to write. Nabakov juvenalia is similarly flawed. (Early Updike is still pretty fine, so maybe he's the exception.) And then, once I started writing, I realized that writing is no different than any other craft or skill. It takes time and effort and the…
Men, Women and Empathy
Interesting stuff: The research team led by Tania Singer, at UCL, asked volunteers to play a game with employees of the lab, secretly instructing the employees to play either fairly or unfairly. Afterward, the scientists measured brain activity in the same volunteers under quite different circumstances: looking on as their former game opponents were subjected to various degrees of pain. In both male and female volunteers, the brain areas that signal pain became active, giving neural evidence of their empathy with the others' pain. Strikingly, however, that empathy did not appear to extend to…
Are Men Happier than Women?
From David Leonhardt: There appears to be a growing happiness gap between men and women. Two new research papers, using very different methods, have both come to this conclusion. Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, economists at the University of Pennsylvania (and a couple), have looked at the traditional happiness data, in which people are simply asked how satisfied they are with their overall lives. In the early 1970s, women reported being slightly happier than men. Today, the two have switched places. Mr. Krueger, analyzing time-use studies over the last four decades, has found an even…
Monday Musings
First day of class! As you might imagine, I'm a little scattered (well, with classes and the fact that we bought a house over the weekend. You know, just that). The Tavurvur Crater at Rabaul erupting in 1994. News! The Examiner.com (SF) has a slideshow and brief article on the current excavations of ruins buried by the Santorini/Minoan eruption that occurred ~3950 years ago. The eruption wiped out much of the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea, but whether there was anyone actually still living on the island when it happened is still a mystery. It seems that most of the Minoans left the…
Evaluating an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
At White Coat Underground, PalMD considers an article from the Journal of Medical Ethics. The article (L. Johnson, R. B. Stricker, "Attorney General forces Infectious Diseases Society of America to redo Lyme guidelines due to flawed development process," Journal of Medical Ethics 2009; 35: 283-288. doi:10.1136/jme.2008.026526) is behind a paywall, but Pal was kind enough to send me a copy. Pal writes: I have a strong interest in medical ethics, although I'm not an ethicist myself. Still, I'm generally familiar with the jargon and the writing styles. This piece reads like no ethics article I…
Odds and ends left over after the Panorama Burzynski Clinic report: Burzynski versus his own SEC filing
I realize that I've been focusing on Stanislaw Burzynski the last couple of days, but it's just been one of those weeks. Between the release of Eric Merola's latest paean to the Brave Maverick Doctor and BBC Panorama's report on Burzynski and his activities, it's been an eventful week. My review of the second Burzynski movie and the Panorama report explain a lot, but there are some loose ends left over. So I might as well take care of that today before resuming regular blogging topics. (Yes, I know Stanislaw Burzynski is a regular blogging topic, but too much of a bad thing can get tiresome,…
Defending Physics Against Cracked.com
"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." -Stephen Jay Gould Those of you who follow me on either google+, facebook or twitter know that I sometimes post interesting articles about science from around the world, including this very good article about myths about outer space, from the often-entertaining cracked.com. So, as you can imagine, I was (at first) very excited when I saw this article…
Climatology: The more things change...
Elizabeth Kolbert's interview in Yale's e360 magazine is a sobering read. But what's even more interesting than the light she sheds on the reasons why the polls keep finding the public is out of touch with the science is the stark reminder I came across in the article's comment section that we've blown the last quarter century. Greenpeace has posted a PDF of a 1983 New York Times story that, with only minimal edits of a few numbers -- replace the carbon-dioxide concentration, which was 340 ppm back then, with today's 387 -- could easily run today. I've converted the whole thing to HTML and,…
Vitamin C and cancer revisited
Sometimes I have to look for blog ideas, trolling through various alternative medicine sites, medical news sites, or science news feeds or my medical and science journals. Sometimes ideas fall on me seemingly out of the blue. This is one of the latter situations. This time around, as I do twice a month I was perusing the very latest issue of Cancer Research, hot off the presses October 1. As I did so, it didn't take me long to come across an article from the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia entitled Vitamin C Antagonizes the…
The largest "randomized" acupuncture study ever done: Why did they even bother?
Believe it or not, there was one area of so-called "alternative" medicine that I used to be a lot less skeptical about than I am now. Homeopathy, I always realized to be a load of pseudoscientific magical thinking. Ditto reiki, therapeutic touch, and other forms of "energy healing." It didn't take an extensive review of the literature to figure that out, although I did ultimately end up doing fairly extensive literature reviews anyway. Then, the more I looked into the hodge-podge of "healing" modalities whose basis is not science but rather prescientific and often mystical thought, the less…
Another Week of GW News, January 4, 2009
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup (skip to bottom) January 4, 2009 Top Stories:Tennessee Coal Sludge, YD Impact Theory, Hansen Letter, Year End Roundups Melting Arctic, Arctic Geopolitics, Antarctica, Contrails, Particulates, Abrupt Climate Change Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Glaciers, Sea Levels Impacts, Forests, Corals, Wacky Weather,…
Election Eve 2008 Celebration in NYC's Times Square
tags: Barack Obama, election2008, politics, NYC, Times Square Image: orphaned [larger view]. One of the nice things about living in NYC is the fact that there are often fun things happening that are both spontaneous and free-of-charge. One of those events occurred last evening and continued through the wee hours of today, when I spent election eve in NYC's Times Square, along with half a million other people. Even though I am not normally very tolerant of crowds, I do really enjoy walking around Times Square at night, and this was a pleasant evening; not too warm nor too cold, and the…
The IDSA Also Thinks Approving Cefquinome Is a Bad Idea
A while back I posted about how awful it would be for the FDA to approve the use of cefquinome, an antibiotic similar to the medically important drug cefepime. I even coauthored a letter about it. Well, it turns out the IDSA wrote a letter about cefquinome too (the whole letter, in pdf). There's good and bad things about the letter. First, the bad--the IDSA proposals about what to do if cefquinome is approved: 1. Limit the marketing status to prescription only. 2. Prohibit extra-label use of the product. 3. Limit the extent of use to "low," meaning that the drug will be administered…
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