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It's Thursday. And that means links. Or something. Science: China Second to US in research, set to pass in 2020 Research Project Grant Support For "Younger Researchers" On the latest NIH soft-money kerfuffle Collins warns Universities to roll back soft money jobs...sortof Shrimp's Dirty Secrets…
Kinda cold here. Let's warm up with some links. Science: From the Trenches of the War on Science Friday Beetle Blogging: A Stunning Staphylinid Koalas bellow to attract a mate Crocodile tears from experienced NIH investigators over the discontinued A2 revision Disease!: Four billion dead Sequenced…
I've frequently noted that one of the things most detested by quacks and promoters of pseudoscience is peer review. Creationists hate peer review. HIV/AIDS denialists hate it. Anti-vaccine cranks like those at Age of Autism hate it. Indeed, as blog bud Mark Hoofnagle Mark Hoofnagle, pointed out…
Eric Merola alternates between offending me and making me laugh at his antics. Since it's been a couple weeks since I've written anything about the Houston doctor who claims to be able to do so much better against many forms of cancer than conventional medicine, I have to express a bit of gratitude…

That article on Wikileaks was interesting. It was a little teal deer for work, but I breezed through it because I had been thinking that it was a bit weird for the press to be assassinating Julian Assange's character like they have been. I thought the press would like him, because he gave them all this great material for stories but they seem to hate him. I figured maybe they were mad that he gave them so much stuff to have to read?