Monthly Archives: September 2009

Public Hygiene and Vaccination: They’re Not For You, They’re For…

Posted on September 14, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

the rest of us. You are an ambulatory germ dispersal unit, so be responsible.
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Posted in Influenza, Public Health, Vaccination | 16 Comments

Lions, Tigers, and…Tax Cut Snark? Oh My.

Posted on September 13, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

“If you give the lions cages, they lose all incentive to build the cages themselves.”
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Posted in Economics, Humor, Museums etc., Taxes | 3 Comments

Saturday Links

Posted on September 12, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Happy Saturday! Some links for you.
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Democrats Want to Create Green Jobs, but Newt Gingrich Seems to Favor Porn

Posted on September 12, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Someone tell me how Democrats are losing to these chuckleheads?
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Posted in Conservatives | 7 Comments

Words Have No Meaning: The Margaret Thatcher Edition

Posted on September 11, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

“Right-wing rhetoric, values, beliefs, and policy stances are as real and meaningful as Margaret Thatcher’s anti-communism: they exist only to manipulate and energize the right-wing constituency, to provide power for enactment of entirely unrelated policies for entirely self-serving reasons.”
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Posted in Conservatives, Creationism, The Soviet, The War on Science | 4 Comments

Healthcare: Bending the Curve and Overemphasizing the First Derivative

Posted on September 11, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

We don’t need to slow the growth of healthcare costs (the first derivative). We need to cut the cost of healthcare in absolute terms.
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Posted in Healthcare, Mathematics | 17 Comments

It’s Not How or Where Rep. Joe Wilson Said What He Said, It’s…

Posted on September 10, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

what he said.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, WhatEVAH! | 7 Comments

PLoS Medicine on Ghostwritten Articles: This Is Going to Leave a Mark

Posted on September 10, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Why should I trust anything they publish or submit as grant proposals?
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Posted in Publishing | 14 Comments

Obama: Sound and Fury, Signifying Romneycare

Posted on September 10, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

The More Serious Pundits among the left-of-center crowd will now dutifully line up behind Obama-Romneycare, and explain to the rest of us, prior experience be damned, how we’re being unrealistic.
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Posted in Democrats, Healthcare, Progressives | 9 Comments

Economics: Does It All Come Down to Those Stupid F-cking Natural History Facts?

Posted on September 10, 2009 by mikethemadbiologist

Economics should try to make sense of the noise. It’s what matters.
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Posted in Economics, Evolution | 18 Comments