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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Is NIAID Focusing on the Wrong Resistant Organisms?
Needed: more focus–money–on the ESKAPE organisms.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Funding, Microbiology, MRSA, NIH
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An Open Letter to Chris Mooney
Do you think there’s a single evolutionary biologist who is happy with public opinion regarding evolution and creationism? But you’re not giving us concrete solutions. Perhaps the communication problem has something to do with the communicators too?
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Posted in Evolution, Framing
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Ben Stein: This Is What Academic Intimidation Looks Like
Prick the skin of the ‘kind-hearted’ fanatic, and you will always find the boot, the jack, and the fist.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, The War on Science
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“A New Class of Antibiotics?”: A Cautionary Tale
Moral of the story–don’t believe every breathless medical breakthrough drug development story you read.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Propaganda
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Terrorist Tularemia Attack?
Responding to bioterrorism requires a public health, not security infrastructure.
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Posted in Microbiology, Military, Public Health
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Some Good News About Vancomycin Resistant MRSA
It’s very hard to evolve.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Evolution, Microbiology, MRSA
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Senator Clinton Embraces Anti-Vax Autism Woo
Trying to have it both ways on autism and vaccines.
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Posted in Autism, The War on Science, Vaccination
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Liberals: Embrace Local Government?
From the wayback machine: Democrats need to support their supporters.
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Posted in Progressives, Urban Planning
While I’m Away on Vacation…
Some advice for visitors to Boston.
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Posted in Boston
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