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- Eating fruits/veggies lowers heart disease risk
- T-Rex bigger than previously thought
- Chimps on TV and protection in the wild
- Cardiovascular side effects of NSAID's
- Genetics and male testosterone Levels
- Diabetes susceptibility gene identified
- Living alone and alcohol-related mortality
- Adequate protein reduces hunger
- The evolution of a hospital superbug
- Central Asia's hidden burden
The Anti-Sigma Factor TcdC Modulates Hypervirulence in an Epidemic BI/NAP1/027 Clinical Isolate of Clostridium difficile
Nosocomial infections are increasingly being recognised as a major patient safety issue. The modern hospital environment and associated health care practices have provided a niche for the rapid evolution of microbial pathogens that are well adapted to surviving and proliferating in this setting, after which they can infect susceptible patients. This is clearly the case for bacterial pathogens such as Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) species, both of which have acquired resistance to antimicrobial agents as well as enhanced survival and virulence properties that present serious therapeutic dilemmas for treating physicians.
( You find 'germicidal antiseptic' - unmarked - in public hand soap dispensers. baby wipes, 'sanitation stations' and more 'to control disease'. The true risks of rampant indulgence in toxic applications are becoming apparent.
Contact dermatitis: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Contact dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin caused by direct contact with an irritating or allergy-causing substance (irritant or allergen). Reactions may vary ...http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000869.htm )
Arguing With Your Crazy Uncle About Climate Change
This from self-styled 'contrary' Brin. Where is that, David ? Did you even read your own slogan ?
"Change is the very fabric of our time." -- David Brin
Elsewhere I show that the War on Science is part of a much wider effort to destroy public trust in every “smartypants caste” — from school teachers, journalists, medical doctors and attorneys to professors, civil servants and skilled labor. (Name a center of intellect that’s exempt!) But nowhere is it more relentless than by savaging the one group in society that’s unarguably among the smartest and best educated.
Ah, yes. The political football of the day, every day, and the fault of the 'left'...no the 'right'....corporations ! Somebody better find where Eureka is....Kansas. LOL
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Talk about a whole hearted regurgitation of Talking Points !
‘Scientism’ isn’t a bad name for a proposition that is inherently untestable because any ‘proofs’ ; of a half baked model excluding most of the bisophere as irrelevant turned to device of ‘prediction’ in a system open to space ; do not occur within the current time frame !
Nor is ‘climate change’ any proof of the fudged mathematical models used to try and get congruence with arbitrarily picked data points on a miniscule timeline.
Larry Niven blew cold. That’s funnier than you think – and in a novel about climate change and anti-science backlash too !
Review — Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael …
11 May 2010 … In a future in which science fiction is forbidden, a group of fen rescue two spacemen who fell to Earth and trek cross-country to find the rocket …
http://billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/fallenangels.shtml
Did you try the military intelligence resource GlobalResearch.ca for files on diverse ( not contrarian ) ideas about drivers of climate ?
Were you aware that even environmental protection science activists the Suzuki Elders cautioned about ignoring geological trends in the past which indicated natural forces for extreme and rapid change exist ?
You don’t need to go to corporately sponsored CFACT for wild stories…and you shouldn’t complain about active imagination !
And … if you look at the cautions the IPCC ( who will receive fantastic tax revenues from global participation in a scam denuding nations of revenue for adapting to change ….while throttling the world economy by the throat…in a world where population will shortly start to nosedive from little incidentals like 1 billion under imminent threat of starvation and less than 3 years coal left in Appalachia…not to mention water resources that are being polluted at a fantastic rate ) include in their statements….reporting is overblown to say the least. Not that I don’t realize that the IPCC is funded by the same crew ( BBC,Tony Blair,etc.) that participated in the anti-science scare about WMD in Iraq following the parameters of the NPT TRAP.
Which is where I came in Dec 4 2009…from geopolitics of nuclear power and demonization of nations trying to use atomic power peaceably while being harassed by the nuclear club ( aka The UN Security Council ) who, having unimaginable overkill of global destruction, posit the unarmed peacenicks to be the ‘true danger’.
‘The Axis of Evil’ : calling others what they are.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/12/4-dec-following-trail-climate-fraud-and.html
Climate in Contention http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html
‘Scientism’ isn’t a bad name for a proposition that is inherently untestable because any ‘proofs’ ; of a half baked model excluding most of the bisophere as irrelevant turned to device of ‘prediction’ in a system open to space ; do not occur within the current time frame !
Nor is ‘climate change’ any proof of the fudged mathematical models used to try and get congruence with arbitrarily picked data points on a miniscule timeline.
Larry Niven blew cold. That’s funnier than you think – and in a novel about climate change and anti-science backlash too !
Review — Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael …
11 May 2010 … In a future in which science fiction is forbidden, a group of fen rescue two spacemen who fell to Earth and trek cross-country to find the rocket …
http://billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/fallenangels.shtml
Did you try the military intelligence resource GlobalResearch.ca for files on diverse ( not contrarian ) ideas about drivers of climate ?
Were you aware that even environmental protection science activists the Suzuki Elders cautioned about ignoring geological trends in the past which indicated natural forces for extreme and rapid change exist ?
You don’t need to go to corporately sponsored CFACT for wild stories…and you shouldn’t complain about active imagination !
And … if you look at the cautions the IPCC ( who will receive fantastic tax revenues from global participation in a scam denuding nations of revenue for adapting to change ….while throttling the world economy by the throat…in a world where population will shortly start to nosedive from little incidentals like 1 billion under imminent threat of starvation and less than 3 years coal left in Appalachia…not to mention water resources that are being polluted at a fantastic rate ) include in their statements….reporting is overblown to say the least. Not that I don’t realize that the IPCC is funded by the same crew ( BBC,Tony Blair,etc.) that participated in the anti-science scare about WMD in Iraq following the parameters of the NPT TRAP.
Which is where I came in Dec 4 2009…from geopolitics of nuclear power and demonization of nations trying to use atomic power peaceably while being harassed by the nuclear club ( aka The UN Security Council ) who, having unimaginable overkill of global destruction, posit the unarmed peacenicks to be the ‘true danger’.
‘The Axis of Evil’ : calling others what they are.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/12/4-dec-following-trail-climate-fraud-and.html
Climate in Contention http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html
Rapid Population Decline or Bust Part 3
marcelluseffect.blogspot.comLord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation is spreading errors
by Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Global warming study finds no grounds for climate sceptics' concerns
Independent investigation of the key issues sceptics claim can skew global warming figures reports that they have no real effect-
As I have discussed in the past, the deniers, or contrarians, if you will, do not act as scientists, but rather as lawyers."
( When in doubt, sling mud....or general characterizations without any accompanying cause to show validity. This lame practice is lauded as practiced by an 'intellectual.'
That instead says something uncomplimentary about appreciation of intelligence. )
Arsenic, quasicrystals and the myth of the science martyr
Successful scientists are, for the most part, incredibly good critics of other scientists’ work. We can pick apart our colleagues experiments often better than our own – to see the controls they should have done and the methods they should have used, and we are particularly adept at coming up with alternative ways of explaining data that undermine their conclusions. This is an important, and constructive, part of the scientific process. If we turn out to be right, great. And if additional data erase our concerns, that great too. That’s the way it usually works.
But in the times when I have been that skeptic, I could feel the tug of something else. Of course recognizing the weaknesses in other’s work is nothing like making a new discovery – but it can feel like it. There is a pull – a sense that you are somehow tapping into the exalted realm of the scientific outsider who knows they’re right when everyone else is wrong. And the expectation of the vindication that will come when everyone realizes you were right. It can be hard to give up that taste of glory.
readersupportednews.organd the Republican challenge is to oppose it anyway. The memo offers a fascinating look at the mechanisms of political spin in general, and the particular dilemma of the Republican Party as it blocks economic action in the face of crisis.' Jonathan Chait, New York Magazinewww.thestar.comThe NDP are renewing their call for a parliamentary inquiry into the G8 legacy fund after newly released documents suggested Conservative ministers were given the power to directly approve infrastructure projects.www.nationalpost.comBetween Sir John A. Macdonald's last plaintive letter to his benefactor in the Pacific Scandal, Sirwww.ottawacitizen.comThe federal staffing watchdog intends to take over investigating and fixing any irregularities in internal staffing at the Immigration and Refugee Board to protect the "integrity" of staffing in the public service.
www.thestar.comStephen Harper wants to blame unions for our economic predicament. Occupy Wall St. protestors are targeting financiers. Is either explanation correct?
blog.buzzflash.comIf Mayor Bloomberg's alleged standard of not "bothering" neighborhood residents and workers is any means test for obeying the law, the NYPD "occupation" of lower New York City should be halted.THE Cold Fusion Thread pt 2 (merged) : Energy Technology - Page 30 - Peak Oil News and Message Boardpeakoil.comRossi Cold Fusion these experiments are producing heat energy and the outputs are too large to be chemical exothermic reactions. These are obviously nuclear reactions!Why did the BBC broadcast a clip comparing sex education teachers to paedophiles?
The Family Planning Association have also condemned the show in a statement released online today which condemns Lynette Burrows's views as "a gross distortion of what relationships and sex education is", asking broadcasters to "stop giving air time to the minority who deliberately seek to distort what sex and relationships education is."
The failure of programmes like Sunday Morning Live to deal with these issues responsibly leaves professionals wondering why they should bother to engage with the media on these topics at all. Alice Hoyle, the teacher who was briefly allowed to respond via webcam, has been left shocked by the experience, and discusses it at length in a series of blog posts. "Equating me to a paedophile is actually the most foul, upsetting and disgusting thing that has ever been said to me."
www.washingtonpost.comThe Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Monday morning new rules that will allow many more “underwater” homeowners - who owe more than their properties are worth - to refinance at today’s ultra-low rates.business.financialpost.com'The only way we’re going to make it through, restore economic growth, is by stimulating the economy,' Nobel prize winner tells Toronto conferenceBOMBSHELL - Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules That Most Foreclosure Sales From Previous 5 Years Are VOID
Without a promissory note, a foreclosing plaintiff cannot show a legal injury, i.e., does not have standing to sue. Without standing, the action before the court does not qualify as a "case or controversy" under Article III of the constitution. Courts can only make rulings on "cases or controversies;" advisory opinions are a legal nullity. Consequently, a court that purports to enter a "judgment" where it has no subject matter jurisdiction has in fact entered a legal nullity on its docket; that "judgment" is void as a matter of law.
As such, any such "judgment" entered where the plaintiff had no standing is open to collateral attack in any subsequent proceeding. What is more, subject matter jurisdiction cannot be waived; were that the case, parties could falsely induce courts to make binding rulings--obviously non-sensical.
www.ottawacitizen.comFor much of NATO's history, the term "burden-sharing" sent Canadian officials scrambling for cover. Coined during the long standoff with the Soviet Union, the term encapsulated a complex debate over who was, and was not, pulling their weight within the alliance. This was defined in terms of putting ...www.ottawacitizen.comWhat is the federal government really going to do to trim military spending? Whatever it is, the public and Defence Department employees shouldn't be finding out about it exclusively through leaked memos in the Citizen.Freethought Blogs
- Al Stefanelli
- Alethian Worldview
- Almost Diamonds
- Assassin Actual
- Blag Hag
- Blue Collar Atheist
- Butterflies and Wheels
- Camels With Hammers
- Comradde PhysioProffe
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- En Tequila Es Verdad
- Greta Christina's Blog
- Lousy Canuck
- Pharyngula
- Reasonable Doubts
- Rock Beyond Belief
- The Atheist Experience
- The Crommunist Manifesto
- The Digital Cuttlefish
- The X Blog
- The Zingularity
- This Week in Christian Nationalism
- Token Skeptic
- What Would JT Do?
Dominionists Try to Hide Their Agenda
Right Wing Watch has an interesting post about members of the New Apostolic Reformation telling their followers to stop talking about taking dominion and to hide their agenda when speaking to anyone other than their own people.
Canada’s hate speech laws collide with reality
The country’s highest court heard arguments pitting freedom of expression against laws banning hate speech Wednesday, setting the stage for an eventual ruling on what is more in need of protection: groups targeted with hatred, or a citizen’s right to speak freely.
As someone who feels most at home talking about things that make polite society squirm – religion, racism, poverty, the idea that people can actually be wrong about things – I place a premium on free speech. Penn Jillette likes to talk about the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution (the right of every citizen to own bear’s arms), saying that it’s the one that protects all the others. This, quite frankly, is militaristic nonsense. A gun doesn’t protect your right against unreasonable search and seizure – you pull a gun on a cop and that search all of a sudden becomes pretty fucking reasonable, amirite?Mr. Jillette is pretty close to the mark, though. It is in fact their first Amendment that is the bulwark against infringement against any of the others. When speech, even speech that is critical of the government that is tasked with enforcing the rights of its citizens (and often especially then), is unrestricted any and all ideas can be debated and expressed. Rights can be fought for in the open, and public opinion can be swayed by the force of the arguments in those fights. It’s how all the amendments after the original Bill of Rights came to be.
Canada doesn’t have a free speech right in the same way that the United States does. Yes, our charter explicitly protects the practice of free speech, but it couches that right in the caveat that one’s speech can be restricted if it qualifies as hateful. No definition of hateful is provided – you’re just supposed to know what that means. For the most part, this means that liberals win and bigots lose. Sadly, it’s still the wrong position for a country to hold.
www.truth-out.org
Stephen Rohde: The ACLU warns that it is "not too late to strengthen our laws, to take back our data, and to ensure that government surveillance is conducted under effective and reasonable constraints, subject to meaningful oversight."
www.agoracosmopolitan.com
It looks the same--the bread, pies, sodas, even corn on the cob. So much of what we eat every day looks just like it did 20 years ago. But something profoundly different has happened without our knowledge or consent. And according to leading doctors, what we don't know may already be hurting us big ...
www.naturalnews.com
Physician speaks out: Gardasil vaccine dangerous, completely useless at preventing cervical cancer
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