Here are some links for you. Science:
Pork producers resist resisting antibiotic resistance
George Will's Crack Fact-Checkers Continue Their Nap
Why False Positive Results Are So Common In Medicine
Other:
Should We Bring Back The 90% Top Tax Rate?
Bookblogging: The rise of the efficient markets hypothesis
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Yes, this is O157:H7, not ExPEC. Bully for you.
While many laboratory experiments have shown that antibiotic resistance imposes a fitness cost on resistant bacteria, it's far less clear if this is the case in natural populations.
Yesterday, four people emailed me, asking about Brian Palmer's Slate article about antibiotic resistance. Since I'll probably get more such emails (and thank you for sending them), I'll offer my thoughts below:
I've written before about antibiotic resistance in the developing world.