Links 8/25/14

Links for you. Science:

Microbiome science needs a healthy dose of scepticism (must-read)
Echoes of the Past: Hereditarianism and A Troublesome Inheritance
Blood Test That Allegedly Predicts Suicide Risk Only Looks Promising in the Media, Not in Science
Why States Should Aim For 100 Percent Vaccination

Other:

Sainsbury’s removes kosher food from shelves amid fears over protesters: Manager of supermarket’s Holborn branch under fire after ordering move as protesters called for boycott of Israeli goods
The Major Problem With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Powerful Essay on Ferguson
When Is It Really Necessary to Hold a Meeting?
Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments
By all means, we should ‘politicize’ Ferguson
Golden Dawn neo-nazis: The militia arm of the systemic establishment! New evidence of the connection between the neoliberal leading party and Golden Dawn in Greece (this is a result of EU austerity policy that has gone unmentioned in the U.S. press)
What libertarians and conservatives get wrong about Ferguson
I’m Polite, Middle-Class and Harassed By Police. Here’s Why.
Jim Hoft’s Unsourced Claim That Officer Darren Wilson Had an “Orbital Blowout Fracture of the Eye Socket”
A Short History of Postal Banking: As the debate over reinstituting postal banking heats up, we should know we had it. And it worked.
#Ferguson : My Thoughts on an American Flashpoint (interesting perspective from someone who is both black and Jewish)
On Reporting
Lemon Quotes National Guard: ‘You Never Know What These ‘N*ggers Are Gonna Do’

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