Monthly Archives: August 2008

Community-Acquired ST398 MRSA Found in Sweden

Posted on August 18, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

This is bad. The piggy MRSA has entered the commensal human population.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Microbiology, MRSA, Plasmids, Public Health, We're Really Fucked | 6 Comments

Olivia Judson on the Utility of Evolution

Posted on August 17, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

We need the concepts, methods, and techniques of evolutionary biology to do other stuff in biology.
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Posted in Creationism, Education, Evolution, Genomics, The War on Science | 1 Comment

Clean Wastewater and the Naturalist Fallacy

Posted on August 17, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Draining the groundwater aquifers because of a mistaken belief in what is ‘natural.’
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Microbiology, Ninnies | 9 Comments

Bush Is Restoring Dignity to the White House

Posted on August 16, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

In case you need to induce vomiting for some reason, here’s an image for you. Seriously, I think Bush’s image handlers are just mailing it in at this point.
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Posted in Humor, Ick, Little Lord Pontchartrain | 12 Comments

Happy Birthday to Social Security!

Posted on August 15, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

From FDR’s grandson, here’s a video that puts Social Security–and its current politics–in proper context
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Posted in 'Snuggles' McCain, Democrats, Social Security | Comments Off on Happy Birthday to Social Security!

Anthrax and the Myth of the Mad Scientist

Posted on August 14, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

To the extent that the evil scientist myth is actually reinforced by the anthrax incident, it is that we have met the enemy and it is not the other, but us.
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Posted in Anthrax, Framing | 5 Comments

Lip Synching Is in the “National Interest”?

Posted on August 13, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

The Beijing Olympics has led to an increase in truthiness. Truth, not so much.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Music, WhatEVAH! | 9 Comments

Reed Elsevier Is Stealing My Words

Posted on August 13, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

This displeases us greatly.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Fucking Royals, Publishing | 20 Comments

Political Reporters, Polls, and Numerical Illiteracy

Posted on August 12, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Even though the presidential race is stagnant in that the numbers aren’t shifting much, that’s not the same as the race being in a dead heat. This would be obvious, if your typical political reporter wasn’t a mathematically illiterate moron.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Mathematics, Statistics, The War on Science | 9 Comments

Joe Klein Gets It Right About Privacy and Politics

Posted on August 11, 2008 by mikethemadbiologist

Political puritanism means that the only way to be scandal-proof is to have spent your entire life planning a run for office. This selects a very bizarre group of people.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Ick | 6 Comments