Monthly Archives: September 2007

Some Good News on the College Loan Front

Posted on September 17, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

This is why elections have consequences: the Democrats have decided to increase the funding for college schloarships.
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Posted in Democrats, Education, Funding | 2 Comments

Quote of the Day: Scientific Results Should Be Vetted First and Foremost…

Posted on September 14, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

by scientists, not journalists
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Posted in News Media | 7 Comments

What’s the Worst Feature of Bad Science Reporting?

Posted on September 13, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Genomicron has a great satirical post about how to write a bad science story. So, I ask you, readers, which of these ten journalistic ‘sins’ is the worst?
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Posted in Humor, News Media, The War on Science | 19 Comments

Iraq, Guilt, and Counter-Intuitive Polling

Posted on September 12, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

People are less likely to say that want to leave Iraq the worse they think the situation is. But this isn’t surprising or counter-intuitive at all: it’s called guilt.
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Posted in Iraq | 12 Comments

Philanthropy, Tax Deductions, and Art

Posted on September 12, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

To pose deductions for charitable contributions as a choice between helping the poor versus supporting the arts is a false choice.
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Posted in Funding, Museums etc. | 2 Comments

Homework (for You) While I’m Away

Posted on September 11, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Because nothing says solemn commemoration like using the deaths of 3,000 people to sell the Surgegasmic Surge.
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Posted in Bloggity Blog | 3 Comments

Some Reflections on Sept. 11

Posted on September 11, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

For me, the most visceral images of that day weren’t from NYC, but from DC.
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Posted in Sept. 11, Terrorism | 3 Comments

Iraq and the Catastrophic Failure of the U.S. Political System

Posted on September 10, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

What happens when the public overwhelmingly holds an opinion that isn’t even represented in the government or among the Mandarin class? Tyranny.
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Posted in Fucking Royals, Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, News Media, We're Really Fucked | 7 Comments

Some Sunday Links

Posted on September 9, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s super surgetastic, surgegasmic (surgical?) Surging Sunday. Here are some links for you.
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The Statistics of the Surge

Posted on September 9, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s really hard to say that the surge is working: even where the trend is in the right direction (e.g., total civilains killed), it basically looks like the surge has only brought things back to where they were before they became really awful. For the other metrics, the only conclusion is that either it has had no effect (car bombs and IEDs) or has made things worse (mortar and rocket attacks).
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Posted in Iraq, Statistics | 34 Comments