Monthly Archives: April 2025

The Name of the Game Is Rallying Your Base and Discouraging Theirs

Posted on April 22, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or at least seventy percent of the game (boldface mine): Our estimate is that the voters who voted in the 2025 Supreme Court election backed Kamala Harris by 7 points in 2024. In other words, roughly 70% of Susan Crawford’s … Continue reading →

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Links 4/21/25

Posted on April 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: HHS ‘Reductions to Absurdity,’ One Week On — We now have more details on last week’s cuts; the analysis is not pretty ‘The Great Educator, Sadly, Is Going to Be These Viruses’: CounterSpin interview with Paul … Continue reading →

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The Centrist Competency Con: The Andrew Cuomo Edition

Posted on April 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the myths that centrist Democrats capitalize on is the idea that they are competent, problem solvers. Of course, the reality is quite different, as this summary of NYC Democratic mayoral candidate and serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo’s record … Continue reading →

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Links 4/20/25

Posted on April 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: An updated dataset of early SARS-CoV-2 diversity supports a wildlife market origin Genetic diversity of pangolin coronaviruses reveals a key immuno-evasive substitution at spike residue 519 Calling All Mad Scientists: Reject “AI” as a Framing of … Continue reading →

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Links 4/19/25

Posted on April 19, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs An animal source of mpox emerges — and it’s a squirrel NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases Third measles death: … Continue reading →

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Links 4/18/25

Posted on April 18, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: A Closer Look at the Woolly Devil The sex life of urban trees Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans The inside story behind the search for the origins of COVID-19. A … Continue reading →

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It’s Propaganda All the Way Down

Posted on April 18, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

So, today, the Trump Administration rerouted covid.gov, which used to be a COVID-19 guidance portal (it provided information about care, prevention etc.) to a White House page that supports the ill-founded lab leak hypothesis. While this is par for the … Continue reading →

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Links 4/17/25

Posted on April 17, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: An Interview With An Epidemiologist Who Lost Her Job Because Of The DOGE Layoffs Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation Rare virus that killed Hackman’s wife linked to 3 deaths in Calif. town Biotech start-ups struggle as … Continue reading →

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Links 4/16/25

Posted on April 16, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: “Fertilization President” Trump Just Gutted Fertility Research Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From ‘Authoritarian Governments’ Coding error caused layoffs at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke this week, source says Trump … Continue reading →

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Links 4/15/25

Posted on April 15, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: How the CDC’s widespread layoffs cut lifesaving health programs Trump administration did not say which research projects were targeted in Harvard review. A government memo has answers. (appears to be focused on vaccination-related research, including research … Continue reading →

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