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>Global Warming Ate the Science

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>The next time you hear about anthropogenic global warming or global climate change, demand to see the data. It no longer exists. I’ve been a skeptic all along, because I remember the warnings about the “coming ice age,” that I read in my “Weekly Reader,” back in grade school. (In the dark ages of the … Continue reading →

>Daschle/Dole/Baker! Health care on the fast track -along with the entire Nation’s finance

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>Right after this Yellow Brick Award ceremony, I’m thinking that it may save my life for me to learn to use Twitter and Facebook. Now. While President Obama is planning to take over the entire finance world ASAP, ABC is planning their all-day infomercial for Obama and his push – there is no “plan,” yet … Continue reading →

>Obama will fund more losing embryonic stem cell research (New Yellow Brick Award to the President)

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>Just days after we hear about functioning induced Pluripotent stem cells from adult skin cells, cells that can produce dopamine, the proteins missing in Parkinson’s disease, we read that President Obama is going to overturn the limits on funding for embryonic stem cell research. Despite the fact that these cells match the patient because they … Continue reading →

Texas teens form pro-life club

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And, it seems that the kids in Coppell, Texas (near Dallas) are only “anti-abortion” because of the undue influence of their families and churches. From the Dallas Morning News: Abortion rights advocates say it’s even harder for them to organize high school students because of the focus on abstinence. “We’re up against a movement that … Continue reading →

Texas teens form pro-life club

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And, it seems that the kids in Coppell, Texas (near Dallas) are only “anti-abortion” because of the undue influence of their families and churches. From the Dallas Morning News: Abortion rights advocates say it’s even harder for them to organize high school students because of the focus on abstinence. “We’re up against a movement that … Continue reading →

>Trash from Reuters on Stem Cells

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>Just read the first two sentences of this article. By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said Tuesday in what they believe is a first step toward helping people. One team repaired hearing in guinea … Continue reading →

>ScienceDaily (How to show your social eugenics agenda)

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>ScienceDaily, a website that often carries news headlines and just about any press release anyone sends them, has topped themselves today with a blurb suggesting that same sex civil unions are a “600 year old tradition.” We know that homosexuality has been around at least since Exodus was first related, and murder and lying are … Continue reading →

Housekeeping

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I fixed a broken link in that story about Nature Neuroscience’s refusal to allow dissent on its editorial pages, or even a rebuttal when the editors attack a scientist for expressing her opinion in another journal. (It seems that extraneous commas interfere with html.) If you follow the (functioning) link, there are links to all … Continue reading →

WHO(se) life is it anyway? (Or “We meant well”)

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The Miami Herald (with a HatTip to Drug Wonks) reports on the Lancet’s report on the World Health Organization’s lack of evidence for its “evidence based” recommendations and guidelines. I like this part (From the The Miami Herald) the best: One unnamed WHO director was quoted in the study as saying: “I would have liked … Continue reading →

>"Sneaky" Texas Legislator

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>Perhaps this article, written by an Associated Press writer, should be receive the Yellow Brick Award. (Should I put “copyrighted” here? No, there’s others, although most – like the award for finishing the obstacle course at Quantico – are awards for achieving the impossible, not for misdirection.) Someone is practicing distraction and projection by calling … Continue reading →

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