Links for you. Science:
Penis Politics Obscure Circumcision’s Role Fighting AIDS
23andMe, DNA Test Maker, Seeks FDA Approval For Personal Kits
Bobby Jindal’s Science Problem: Romney’s education surrogate promotes creationist nonsense in schools (my thoughts on Jindal here, here, here, and here)
Does Climate Change Mean More Polar-Grizzly Bear Hybrids?
Mathematical Illiteracy in the NYT
Other:
Co-Pay-Free Contraception Starts Tomorrow for Many Americans (tomorrow would be two days ago…)
IT’S HIP! IT’S COOL! IT’S LIBERTARIANISM!
Is Facebook’s Ad Model a Scam?
The Obama Enabler’s Big Lie: “We Never Had the Votes”
OH MY GOD. I JUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
Just wash the damn spoon.
The Post Office Is Still Ours. The Post Office Is Dying.
The Other Barbarians at the Gates
Same-sex relationships in the Bible
It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! (Review)
What If Colorado Theater Patrons Were Armed? It would have been worse. It could have been much worse.
Beyond Anecdotes: The Evidence About Financial Incentives And Teacher Retention
Broken heartland: The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
A Social Security Ditty: “If Privatization is Necessary—“
Banks Are The “Achilles’ Heel of Capitalism”
Hello From the Underclass: Unemployment Stories, Vol. One
mikethemadbiologist
I see your business week with blanket claims of circumcisions benefits and attempted arguments why we should not leave circumcision up to the decision of sexually mature boys and raise you two specific rebuttals 🙂
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/commentary-circumcision-without-medical-justification-is-wrong-a-846395.html
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/05/when-bad-science-kills-or-how-to-spread-aids/
(discussing the African studies and how 1) they don’t show what has been claimed they show and 2) they’re in fact likely to increase the spread of AIDS by reducing condom use)