Links for you. Science:
NIH’s rapid growth has let in a bunch of riff-raff!
Did Austerity Bring On the Ebola Crisis?
Congress is dissatisfied with NIH’s spending priorities!
The Spider Assassin
Bash Science with Gay AND Fat-shaming? It’s like a rightwing three-fer
Other:
Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change. (made a similar point here)
The Hottest Zone: How the media stoked the U.S. Ebola panic
Seven Reasons Poor People Rent to Own Furniture
Why #Gamergaters Piss Me The F*** Off
What if ISIS took Fox News’ advice and tried to weaponize Ebola? A play in one act. (funny)
The day Jon Stewart quit: Why “The Daily Show” isn’t the satire America needs
George Will, Fox News, and the Beginning of an Ebola Conspiracy (what an asshole-Will, that is)
Nation’s Wealthy Places Pour Private Money Into Public Schools, Study Finds
Here’s Some Stupid For Lunch (the anti-stem cell brigade is mucking about in Ebola vaccine research. What could possibly go wrong?)
Today in Ebolanoia: NC assistant principal forced to self-quarantine after visiting part of Africa 3000 miles from Ebola zone
Ebolanoia: The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Ebola Fear Itself
Follies of the Day
mikethemadbiologist
Are either of the cell lines cited in the kooks against vaccines articles actually regarded as stem cells? Are they not from fully differentiated cells? Of course honesty is not a general feature of missives from the anti-abortion crowd.
The HEK-293 line has been around since the 1970’s. I haven’t found (didn’t look very hard) a date for the origin of the PER.C6 line, but it is noted it was derived from a single cell. It’s not like anyone is running around harvesting fresh human fetuses for each batch of vaccine.
Joan Quigley, astrologer who advised Reagans, dies
How Boston is rethinking its relationship with the sea