Monthly Archives: February 2007

ASM Microbiology Blog

Posted on February 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Moselio Schaechter, former American Society of Microbiology president, has a blog, Small Things Considered. It’s pretty good. But the promo letter ASM sent around had one annoying thing.
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Posted in Bloggity Blog, Microbiology | 3 Comments

Quote of the Day

Posted on February 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

John Emerson on David Brooks’ most recent expedition in ersatz sociology–this time a rant about the parenting habits of Brooklynites:
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A Weird Blogging Format Question

Posted on February 27, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Thanks to YouTube, bloggers regularly post video. Sites like Flickr allow the posting of pictures. But there’s one thing that I haven’t seen–or more accurately, heard.
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Conservapedia’s Glorious War on Sarcasm: the Gene Edition

Posted on February 27, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What happens when you take Science Blogs “basic concepts” and add it to Conservapedia, the information website for complete morons? You get more fun than a barrel of monkeys (which, of course, are not related to humans…). Here’s what the Stupid People have to say about genes
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Posted in Creationism, Evolution, Fucking Morons, The War on Science | 4 Comments

Why Political Pandering to Creationists Matters

Posted on February 26, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

When I heard that Republican Senator and presidential candidate John McCain spoke at the Discovery Institute, I was disappointed but not surprised. In March, there’s going to be a report released about antibiotic resistance in bacteria. A major finding of the report:
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Posted in Antibiotics, Conservatives, Creationism, Evolution, Fucking Morons, MRSA, Public Health, Religion, The War on Science, We're Really Fucked | 5 Comments

Interesting Gallup Poll

Posted on February 26, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

A recent Gallup Poll about support for the Iraqi Occupation notes something very interesting: Jews are more likely to oppose the war, even after party affiliation is taken into account. Gallup states, “It is unclear why Jewish Americans show such strong opposition to the war.” My answer?
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When Your Foreign Policy Repulses John Negroponte…

Posted on February 26, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…the man who helped bring you Iran-Contra, you know you’ve gone too far. Seymour Hersh has a new article in the New Yorker about the Bush Administration’s Middle East ‘strategy.’ It’s more ridiculous than Iran-Contra.
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