A few weekend posts worth digging back for:
- Shelley and Evil Monkey discuss the theory that exposure to environmental toxins such as pesticides could be responsible for the rise in prevalence of Parkinson's disease, especially among the young.
- Janet continues the discussion of the position of women in the sciences with a post on a Boston Globe story about the intimidation of a (female) MIT job candidate by a (male) nobel laureate.
- Joseph describes an uproar in Peru over promising anti-diarrheal drugs; naysayers oppose the drugs on the grounds that they are manufactured using gentic modification. He plans to follow up with a post on the safety of genetically modified crops.
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Karl from Innoculated Mind is part of what looks to be an excellent new site called Biofortified.
Over at [Dispatches][dispatches], Ed Brayton has been shredding my old friend Sal Cordova.
Ed does a great job arguing that intelligent design is a PR campaign, and not
Cannibalism is a controversial topic. It is routine for particular societies to accuse "barbarians", enemies, or evil mythological figures, of cannibalism.