By the time you read this, I hopefully have been dismissed from jury duty. Science:
A Case Of Classic SwiftBoating: How The Right-Wing Noise Machine Manufactured ‘Climategate’
Public health: flunking the test
The End of Chiropractic
Yogurt Enemas, Rolfing and Astral Healing for All!
Limits
The beckoning silence: Why half of the world’s languages are in serious danger of dying out
There’s More Than One Way to Split an Atom

Just a bit more on Merry Xmas
Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border
Obama’s Delusion
Education Rate in U.S. Declines
What Happened When an Anti-Choice Catholic Woman Needed an Abortion at Dr. Tiller’s Clinic
Six Files the US Government Keeps on You, and How to Obtain a Copy
Precaution, uncertainty, insurance, and morality