…thanks to Katie Couric. After watching these videos, I can’t stay silent. I am absolutely horrified and shocked that this candidate represents part of the ticket that is one of my two options when I go to vote for the President of the United States. I repeat…the President of the United States!!!!!! It is beside the point that I was not going to vote for John McCain anyway, but had I been “on the fence”, I would be absolutely insulted... Read more

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NIH director Elias Zerhouni resigned today, only to beg the question…why? Of course there was the burning reality that he was likely to be replaced with the installment of a new administration, even under McCain. But why walk away now? Rampant speculation has started… Here is the full statement: ... Read more

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Man, I am SO far behind on my blog posts; I have 5-6 topics swirling in my head, half-written, half-researched, or in some alternative form of partial existence. But a recent comment by David Featherstone on the previous entry warranted a new thread to see if we can spur on additional discussion. At issue is competition and how it affects the way people do science, and here is David’s fear: Which leads us into a discussion of Web 2.0 or... Read more

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[I warned you in my inaugural entry that when I get swamped, I am going to do the green thing and recycle some posts that I think might initiate more discussion. This one was originally posted at Action Potential on July 12, 2007. DrugMonkey and I had a bit of fun with this one that continued much later here] I just returned from attending my second Gordon Research Conference in two months and I am surprised by what I have... Read more

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