politics where science meets government
A graffitied campaign poster in San Francisco. From Flickr, by shioshvili
August 7, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
Book review: "The Animal Research War" An excellent field guide to the animal rights organizations, their strategies, and the consequences for the rest of us.
Aetiology
Anthrax--still a mess So, after almost a week of intense media scrutiny and finger-pointing at USAMRIID scientist Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the FBI has now released its documents pertaining to the case, and declares that Ivins was...
Deltoid
Do not cite or quote Clif at Sadly No mocks some blogger who thinks that because the draft report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States used a photoshopped picture of flood to illustrate a flood, rather than a picture of a real flood,...
denialism blog
The Arrogance of Power---The Corrupt Mayor of Motown I usually don't stray into strictly political issues, but today's action by the Mayor of Detroit has me fuming. I've been avoiding blogging on this topic, but Kwame Kilpatrick always has a new criminal exploit fueled by his overwhelming arrogance....
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Politics and Medicine Weekly Channel Highlights In this post: the large version of the Politics and Medicine & Health channel photos, comments from readers, and the best posts of the week.
Pure Pedantry
Abstinence Education: Just Giving the Kids Ideas Yet another piece of evidence for the futility of abstinence education. Masters et al., publishing in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, show that an adolescent's attitude about sex is a much stronger indicator that they will actually...
Good Math, Bad Math
Encryption, Privacy, and You As you've probably heard, the US customs service has, recently, asserted the right to confiscate any and all computers and/or digital storage carried by anyone crossing the US border. They further assert the right to demand all passwords, encryption...
Mike the Mad Biologist
OK, Now I'm Convinced There Isn't an Anthrax Mixture The inversion is not enough evidence to conclude that two anthrax strains were used.
Framing Science
For UW-Madison Readers: Talk on Framing and the Marketing Problem in Science For Madison area readers, a great opportunity to discuss face-to-face the framing science debate...
The Frontal Cortex
Proposition Two One of the great themes of post-Darwinian science is the inter-relatedness of life. From the perspective of our neurons, there is little difference between a human and a rat, or even a sea slug. All animals use the same ionic...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
The Million Man Prayer Worldnutdaily reports: Organizers of a Christian prayer ministry are expecting over a million people will fill the National Mall in Washington, D.C, on Aug. 16 for a 12-hour assembly of fasting and prayer for the country. The group is called...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Thought Crime and Child Porn I agree completely with Sandefur about the Karen Fletcher case, where a woman from Pennsylvania has plead guilty to child pornography charges for writing fictional stories that depict the sexual abuse of children. Those charges are clearly contrary to Supreme...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
How Drug Prohibition Causes Corruption As if we needed any more evidence that drug prohibition causes massive corruption in our law enforcement agencies, look what's going on in Indianapolis. The arrests of four Indianapolis police officers are forcing the dismissals of more than two dozen...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Denver Protester Pleads Not Guilty Carol Kreck, the former librarian and Denver Post reporter who was arrested for carrying a sign that said "McCain = Bush" outside a John McCain appearance at a public venue, has pled not guilty to trespassing charges. I'm surprised it's...
Terra Sigillata
"Spreading faster than a case of Cancun herpes" So said Seth Grahame-Smith on Tuesday about the Paris Hilton video that responds to John McCain's ad comparing she and Britney Spears to Barack Obama. I first saw the video when I was going to respond to a very nice...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars
Obama Handles Ignorant Douchebag I'm sorry, I mean "heckler." You have to see this video of some idiotic dumbass named John Quinn interrupting an Obama speech in Ohio to demand that they say the pledge of allegiance. Obama smoothly disarmed the man by inviting...
Pharyngula
Oklahoma, you can do better than Sally Kern I'm afraid the odious Oklahoma legislator, Sally Kern, has opened her mouth again. She has declared herself a "cultural warrior for Judeo-Christian values. I despise the term "Judeo-Christian" — it's so fake, and such a transparent attempt to tie...
Greg Laden's Blog
Al Franken's Fifty State Strategy: The Movie Thank you, Ana, for sending this: It gets a bit old by the time it is over, but it is funny. At the event we went to, the bidding started at 50, got to 60 or something, and someone shouted out "500?!?!?" and that was...
A Few Things Ill Considered
Prometheus gets a makeover So, Pielke Jr's blog, Prometheus has a new look. Congratulations! But just a minute...they have also changed the URL's of all the past postings, thereby breaking the links to to all things Roger in the climate debate blogosphere. And Roger...
Effect Measure
Anthrax investigation: what's that aroma? The anthrax investigation is turning into a stinker.
The Questionable Authority
The Hamdan Verdict ...by attempting to depict their client as a semi-literate Bedouin with a fourth grade education, who knows how to drive, wash cars, load trucks, and change oil filters and tires. They apparently were successful in this, even in the face of damning testimony from al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed claiming that behind Hamdan's convincing facade there lurked
August 6, 2008
Gene Expression
Richard Dawkins - Islamophobe? Richard Dawkins: Muslim parents 'import creationism' into schools: "Most devout Muslims are creationists so when you go to schools, there are a large number of children of Islamic parents who trot out what they have been taught," Prof Dawkins said...
A Blog Around The Clock
Just informing the voters.... McCain campaign complained that media is not covering him before they complained that media is covering him. Another example of a debate between John McCain and John McCain? Well, when you have a bad product, it is best not to...
Dynamics of Cats
anthrax evidence the Department of Justice took the unusual step of releasing some of the documents filed in the case against Dr Ivins in the 2001 anthrax attacks...
A Blog Around The Clock
Wrinkly, white-haired guy.... See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com Of course, by the time off-shore drilling could produce anything (in about 10 years if we start drilling today), there will be no need for it if...
“[I]n voting for Pres, I have to say Barack, then Paris, then McCain. J-Dog on I'll see you at the debates, bitches...
