Although I think Bora is being overly alarmist when he declares that we are now officially living in a fascist state, that doesn’t mean that I don’t find the passing of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which authorizes military tribunals for “enemy combatants,” a category that, given the murky language of the act, is […]
Category: Politics
I wrote last week about the Tripoli Six, six health care workers who were jailed by Libya on trumped up charges of infecting patients at a hospital they worked at with HIV. Since then, many other have chimed in, and the most recent count of blog posts about this case is well over 100. According […]
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Declan Butler of Nature has issued a call for help from the scientific and medical blogosphere in protesting and raising awareness about an utter travesty of justice, a vile and utterly vicious miscarriage of justice. This is one that I can’t help but throw the paltry weight of my own blog behind. Here’s the story: […]
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Unfortunately for them, folks in Colorado have a hard core anti-vaxer named Dawn Winkler running for governor on the Libertarian ticket. I’m hoping for their sakes that, as a third party candidate, that she has virtually no chance of winning. Check out some of her rhetoric posted on Whale.to seven years ago in response to […]
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Ensconced at a conference center in North Carolina near Abel‘s and Bora‘s home turf since Saturday, I appear to have missed an update on the story of Starchild Abraham Cherrix. As you may recall, he is a 16 year old who fought for the right to pursue “alternative” therapy over evidence-based medicine to treat his […]
