Monthly Archives: October 2014

Siesta Interruptus

Posted on October 28, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on 33rd Street, between Volta Place and P Street, Georgetown, D.C.:

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Common Sense As Another Name For Irrational Fear

Posted on October 28, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

So this part from a Washington Post story about the Ebola quarantine rules that were put in place has been making the rounds on the intertoobz: “It seems a quarantine would be unnecessary,” said John Ard, an anesthesiologist affiliated with … Continue reading →

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Links 10/27/14

Posted on October 27, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Sorry, Cat Haters, Science Isn’t On Your Side What if NSF preproposals WERE the proposals? Reef sharks may already be adapted for climate change Viral-research moratorium called too broad: Us government ban on research into enhanced … Continue reading →

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Ebola Volunteers Are Heroes, Not Self-Indulgent Children To Be Tolerated

Posted on October 27, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

I’ve been trying to figure out what has been bothering about the quarantine orders that are popping up around the U.S.–other than they are unnecessary and counterproductive. What helped it was reading about Gov. Christie’s defense of his ill-considered and … Continue reading →

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Now, They’re Not Even Waiting to Retire Before Cashing In

Posted on October 27, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

This is stunning–and demoralizing–to any honest public employee (boldface mine): The former director of the National Security Agency has enlisted the US surveillance giant’s current chief technology officer for his lucrative cybersecurity business venture, an unusual arrangement undercutting Keith Alexander’s … Continue reading →

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Links 10/26/14

Posted on October 26, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

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 … Continue reading →

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So This Is How We’re Going to Respond to the Killer Death Virus?

Posted on October 26, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

So two power-hungry, corrupt, thuggish governors, New Jersey’s Chris Christie and New York’s Andrew Cuomo, have decided to enact their own public health Ebola policy. What could possibly go wrong? Well, according to Doctors Without Borders, one of their nurses … Continue reading →

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Links 10/25/14

Posted on October 25, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: “The Hot Zone” and the mythos of Ebola (must-read; accessible to non-scientists) Paralysed man Darek Fidyka walks again after pioneering surgery (science rocks) The Ebola Wars: How genomics research can help contain the outbreak. Misunderstood spiders … Continue reading →

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The Wealth of Sh-theads

Posted on October 25, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Amidst all of the discussion about Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which describes how inequality will continue to rise, this is an issue I haven’t seen raised, but, snark aside, seems rather important: This might not be a … Continue reading →

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Murphy’s Law of Vaccines

Posted on October 25, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

This, from a family physician, about the ‘law of vaccine supply and demand‘: Remember the H1N1 epidemic from 2009? The country was obsessed with the bird flu, like they are now with Ebola. My patients were scared to get the … Continue reading →

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