Monthly Archives: October 2006

Defending, Not Using, Victims

Posted on October 27, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

More than a few conservatives are upset about the Michael J. Fox commercials because they’re unfair: how do you respond to the emotional pull of someone who has Parkinson’s disease?
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Posted in Blastocyst Liberation, Conservatives, Democrats, Iraq, Progressives, The War on Science | 3 Comments

Words As Weapons

Posted on October 27, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Lance Mannion notes that Rush “Big Pharma” Limbaugh uses words in the same way creationists do: as weapons.
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, Fucking Morons, Propaganda | Comments Off

An Unreal Campaign Event

Posted on October 27, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Michael Schiavo reports on a truly weird campaign event held by Republican congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave.
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Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Fucking Morons, The War on Science | 4 Comments

I See Crazy People, At Least 14% of the Time

Posted on October 26, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

From Billmon, comes this little factoid hidden in the latest Gallup poll:
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, We're Really Fucked | 7 Comments

MRSA and ‘Search and Destroy’

Posted on October 26, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

I have discussed the “search and destroy” strategy for controlling and reducing methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) before. Search-and-destroy involves the screening of every patient and hospital worker for MRSA.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Economics, Healthcare, Microbiology, MRSA, Public Health | 3 Comments

Google Bombs Away!

Posted on October 25, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Majikthise reminds us to join Operation Google Bomb.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Internet, Lotsa Links, Pig Screwer | 1 Comment

“The Vapidity of the Whole Meme Thing”

Posted on October 24, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Chad writes: He [Dawkins] rubs me the wrong way when he talks about science (I wish I could find the old post somebody on ScienceBlogs did about the vapidity of the whole “meme” thing), and really gets up my nose when he talks about religion. I don’t know if he’s referring to my critique of the meme concept, but I figured it gives me an excuse to resurrect this post about memes from the old site.
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Posted in Evolution, Memes | 15 Comments

An Obvious Solution for the Lancet Article ‘Controversy’

Posted on October 23, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

When the Lancet study first came out, I argued that conservatives couldn’t just criticize–they had to offer their own alternative, credible numbers for the civilian death toll. Matt Yglesias goes one further: why not a second study using credible methods … Continue reading →

Posted in Iraq, Statistics | 2 Comments