Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Special Science News Edition
The real Weapon of Mass Destruction?
Would you vote if you were being threatened with death and the US can't even protect their own troops?
F-ck the Oil-for-Food scandal, is there any way you can't hang part of the repsonsiblity for this on the US?
Iraq has proven that the US and British really do have that "special relaionship" they have always claimed.
How Bush could really end hopelessness around the world - A Proposal to End Poverty.
Another view of the Middle East conflict - When the Silent Majority Are the Real Martyrs.
MojoBlog - the Mother Jones news blog.
So it's conventional wisdom that the insurgency in Iraq is being conducted by some combination of disgruntled Saddam-affiliated ex-Baathist party members, former military, Sunnis and foreign Islamic extremist terrorist elements, right? So who the f-ck is threatening one of Saddam's lawyers into hiding, Shiites afraid that Saddam might actually be acquitted when he goes on trial?!
What flu vaccine shortage?
Great! Peep game:
Embryonic stem cells, hailed as a potential treatment for a range of diseases, are contaminated by an animal molecule, researchers suggest. The molecule's presence would lead the human immune system to attack the cells. The University of California team, writing in Nature Medicine, says this means such cells could not be used.
Dr Ajit Varki at the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California said,"It would seem best to start over again with newly derived human embryonic stem cells that have never been exposed to any animal products." However, regulations in the US which only allows federal funding to be given to research on embryonic stem cell lines created before 2001 would mean such an approach could not be pursued without a change in the law.
from BBC News' "Stem cell contamination worries." So now what, George?
And in yet more science news, the study on the drug Vioxx that the FDA tried to shut down with threats and intimidation is finally published. In the meantime though, the drug may have killed over 140,000 people meaning Merck and Co. is probably responsible for more deaths in the past five years than the US government and Al Qaeda's "War on Terror." Perspective, people.
Finally, Lance Armstrong, look what you started? More political bracelet humor. (Related: Spread hope | Count Me Blue)
