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Entertainment/culture Medicine

More on Steve Irwin and stingray barbs

Dr. Chris Rangel has posted a good discussion of trauma due to stingray barbs, stingray venom, and Steve Irwin’s tragic death yesterday. It’s well worth a read.

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Medicine Pseudoscience Science

Bad statistics from HIV/AIDS “skeptic” Peter Duesberg debunked

Mark over at Good Math, Bad Math just posted a lovely fisking of a claim by Peter Duesberg that “all positive teenagers would have had to achieve an absurd 1000 contacts with a positive partner, or an even more absurd 250,000 sexual contacts with random Americans to acquire HIV by sexual transmission.” He even gets […]

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Politics

A Labor Day RINO Sightings

The latest RINO Sightings have been posted at Right Thoughts for your reading edification.

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Entertainment/culture Popular culture Science

The Crocodile Hunter is no more

Holy crap. I get up on this holiday morning, and what is the first thing that I see when I check out the ScienceBlogs most recent posts, but a bunch of posts on Pharyngula, Pure Pedantry, Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge, and Evolving Thoughts, The Scientific Indian, and Afarensis? Steve Irwin (a.k.a. the Crocodile Hunter) […]

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Blog housekeeping EneMan Humor

A Spinal Tap moment…

I don’t know why, but yesterday I was thinking about Spinal Tap. It’s a hilarious movie that I haven’t seen in a while, and I’ve wanted to own the DVD for a while now. Somehow, this thought reminded me of something. Something about the blog. Something that, in my absence and now my return from […]