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Stem Cell Slant

2007-04-12T06:41:00.000-07:00

James Taranto is projecting in the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal today. He accuses The Times of London of slanting it's coverage of a recent breakthrough in stem cell therapy.Taranto:Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again," the Times of London reports. That's

Looking into the Eye of a Monster

2006-11-09T18:34:00.000-08:00

NASA Sees into the Eye of a Monster Storm on Saturn 11.09.06 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.The "hurricane" spans a dark area inside a thick, brighter ring of clouds. It is approximately 8,000 kilometers (

Woo Hoo!

2006-11-07T22:54:00.000-08:00

Claire McCaskill's pulling ahead and she's bringing amendment 2 along with her! Candidate Party Votes % of Votes Talent, Jim REP 842,251 47.7% % Yes Votes Graph McCaskill, Claire DEM 867,683 49.1% % Yes Votes GraphBallot Issue Name Votes % Of Votes Constitutional Amendment No. 2 - 2006 Precincts Reporting 3075 of 3734 Stem Cell Initiative Yes 856,509 50.1% No

What Would Jesus Do About Michael J. Fox?

2006-10-25T11:42:00.000-07:00

What would Jesus do about Michael J. Fox’s endorsment of Claire McCaskill for Senate against Jim Talent in Missouri? Apparently he’d produce a commercial opposing stem cell research with some overpaid prima donnas and a second-rate actress. Here’s Jim Caviezel, star of the Christian BDSM movie that was all the rage a few years back, “The Passion of the Christ”. Jesus Caviezel, or Jim Christ as

Violence Breaks Out in the Republican War on Science!

2006-10-23T21:28:00.000-07:00

Today the long-simmering Republican War on Science boiled over into open violence on the Texas-Mexico border. Armed with Russian made AK-47 assault rifles, 9 millimeter pistols (with hollowpoint bullets), and .45 caliber pistols Republican candidate for Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools, Bill Crozier, and several unidentified men launched an assault on a Calculus textbook, an Earth

Helping Out the Slow Kid in Class

2006-10-05T14:55:00.000-07:00

Whenever you take a class, at some point it becomes painfully obvious that one of the other students just doesn't get it. They appear not to read the assignments, they don't take notes in class, their questions are hostile and often illustrate various aspects of their ignorance, in short he just can't keep up with the material.Unfortunately, my good buddy Hank Barnes appears to be one of these

"...Being a Christian is No Excuse For Being Stupid."

2006-09-29T06:32:00.000-07:00

As Right Wing extremist James Dobson and his minions from Focus on the Family criss-cross the country holding rallies and using the pulpit as a tool to service their political agenda of restricting reproductive rights, preventing equal rights for homosexuals, and bringing religion into the science classroom, a surprisingly candid interview with former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey

We Must be Doing Something Right!!

2006-09-24T16:18:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this! We are now listed on New AIDS Review’s list of “Sites/Pages (Misleading)”We share this illustrious honor with a number of crackpot sites I’ve never heard of:AetiologyNIH Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Fact SheetThe National Academy of Sciences NatureScienceThe New York Times and others.I notice Mark Chu-Carroll, the Golden God of nerds,

Deep Space Climate Observatory Update

2006-09-19T14:08:00.000-07:00

Seed magazine provides an update on the status of the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a satellite designed to precisely measure the earth's albedo for use in monitoring and making predictions about global warming. We talked about the Deep Space Climate Observatory here in January.Seed's Mitchell Anderson makes a convincing case that politics and the desire to maintain a semblance of uncertainty

Got Cicada Killers? Science in the backyard.

2006-09-10T14:32:00.000-07:00

While digging up the weed bed in my backyard, that in previous years has been a vegetable garden, I happened to unearth a large fresh cicada with no earth on it nor any sign of dehydration.Though the nymphs of cicadas do live underground they emerge from the earth and climb a tree to molt and become adults. A quick look around confirmed that cicadas had recently been molting in my back yard.(

I'm sorry Dean, was that a yes

2006-09-07T13:18:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry Dean, was that a yes to both questions?Dean Esmay asks how many Nobel Prize winners and National Academy members we have here at Moment of Science. Well let me see here...besides myself,and Timothy,and Roy, we got...well, I guess that makes zero.This is just another example of Dean's refusal to apply either logic or reason to his thiniking on HIV/AIDS. How many Nobel Prize winners or

An Urgent Message to Jesus' General

2006-09-02T10:16:00.000-07:00

Dear General,I was overjoyed to learn that you share my love and respect for spermatozoan Americans!However, I must take issue with your plan to institute a blastocyst-American draft. As you know, both spermatozoan-Americans and blastocyst-Americans are patriotic freedom-loving folk. Though they’re willing to serve their country in times of need, they will not respond kindly to the sort of big

Is Dean Esmay Dishonest? or Just Ignorant?

2006-09-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

Here he is repeating a lie told by Hank Barnes:Lancet Studyby DeanThe Lancet just published a massive study of over 20,000 AIDS patients and determined that anti-retroviral drugs do not increase the lifespan of AIDS patients. They increase leukocyte counts and reduce "viral load," but do not save lives. HAART is a failure, in other words.Well now. Isn't that mysterious?The original lie,

Casey Luskin Advances Agenda of Ignorance by Misappropriating Scientific Terms

2006-08-31T14:57:00.000-07:00

Casey Luskin, of the contemptibly dishonest Discovery Institute, is bashing Jerry Coyne for saying:“After lecturing this spring to the Alaska Bar Association on the debate over intelligent design and evolution, I was approached at the podium by a young lawyer. The tight-lipped smile, close-cropped hair and maniacal gleam in his eyes told me that he was probably a creationist out for blood. I was

Let Them Eat Jesus

2006-08-26T07:48:00.000-07:00

National Council of Churches comes under fire from anti-Christian bigots.Recently the 45 million person National Council of Churches has come under fire from a group called “Concerned Women for America” (CWFA) for encouraging its member Churches to support and actively work toward eradicating global poverty by fulfilling the United Nations Millenium Development Goals: Goal 1. Eradicate Extreme

Last "Rational" Reason for Opposing Embryonic Stem Cell Research is Gone

2006-08-23T11:58:00.000-07:00

Anti-science opponents persist in objecting to research.The last possible "rational" reason for opposing the funding of embryonic stem cell research has been removed. Newsweek reports that Advanced Cell Technology of California has published a paper in Nature's advanced online edition stating that their scientists have used a single cell extracted from a human embryo to produce embryonic stem

The Party of Sperm Worshippers

2006-08-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

The Party of Sperm Worshippers!THE REPUBLICANS, THE TWO-BIT WHORES AT THE CORNER, ANN COULTER,AND THE DISREGARD FOR SAFE SEX****COVER ILLUSTRATION REDACTED DUE TO BLOGGER’S RESTRICTIONS ON POSTING PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES. SEE TERMS OF SERVICE.****“The Reverend Timothy Tidwell, armed only with truth and logic, takes on George W. Bush, Ann Coulter, and that wanker Ramesh Ponnuru --and he’s the only one

A Review of Ramesh Ponnuru's Party of Death

2006-08-15T16:30:00.000-07:00

The Democrats the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life (After President Bush’s veto of the Stem Cell Research bill I found myself wondering: What the heck are these people thinking? After reading “Party of Death” I have my answer. They aren’t thinking much, and they sure don’t know much about biology.)”A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little

They Shall Take Up Serpents

2006-08-10T21:00:00.000-07:00

"And these signs shall follow them that believe;In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." or not.On Monday morning (Minister John-ed.) O'Kain was riding his bike through a wooded area near the camp's health center when

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things

2006-08-10T19:40:00.000-07:00

(Click for music) Raindrops in toilets and hemp skirts on hippiesBright solar panels and shareholders’ yippeesRecycled newspapers tied up with stringsThese are a few of my favorite thingsRenewable fuels and turbines that spin in the windCaps on emissions and treaties we cannot rescindFull spectrum sunlight from skylights in ceilings These are a few of my favorite thingsCars emitting water instead

The 40th Edition of the Skeptic's Circle

2006-08-03T21:50:00.000-07:00

is up at Daylight Atheism.Some great selections:The 2% Company on the absurdity that is homeopathy.Oracs Friday dose of Woo: Mere Regularity is Not Enough.And Eor's got a live wire in Giant UFO Built Yowie Pyramids of Bullshitan excerpt:"Dian spontaneously accesses past life knowledge as a Master Sound Healer in the Court of Akhenaton in Egypt and combines it with vibrational knowledge from

Figures

2006-08-03T08:09:00.000-07:00

These Figures are intended to accompany this post. (A blogger bug prevented their posting contiguous with the text.)Figure 1.Fig. 1. (a) Quarterly mortality rates and percentage of total patient-days receiving HAART among patients who ever had a CD4 cell count < style=""> Over 90% of HAART regimens were PI based. (b) Quarterly incidence rates of common opportunistic infections. Figure 2.

"Skepticism" Run Amok, an Appropriate Level of Skepticism in Evaluating HIV/AIDS Causation

2006-08-02T17:32:00.000-07:00

(This is a response from the virologist/epidemiologist who contributed this article.)Thanks to both readers that have made it so far. First: Michael is right. You can feel the rage dripping from his comments and are similar to those eloquently and bravely stated by my hero, the late Jonathan Mann, AIDS is one of the most important events in history, surpassing the Black Plague in its death toll

Why are Climate Scientists Soooo Clueless?

2006-07-27T22:25:00.000-07:00

While conducting a reconnaissance mission in The Republican War on Science, I came across this diary at Redstate.com, a Conservative Republican group blog. It’s basically a DailyKos.com for Conservative Republicans. Clueless Scientists Remain Clueless Now, naturally that piqued my interest so I took a look at the diary. It begins with a quotation from this article on LiveScience.com:Scientist:

Intelligent Design?...

2006-07-26T16:51:00.000-07:00

Or drugs?(long video clip)It's rumored that one of my professors from undergrad figures prominently in this, er... educational film that shows that learning molecular biology can be fun! Without being incredibly geeky.Well,... maybe it just shows that learning molecular biology can be funny.Update Thanks to Turtles all the Way Down at Metafilter for the link.The only blog inspired by a Bumper

Watch out for falling debris!

2006-07-26T00:00:00.000-07:00

And incredibly shrinking text.We're trying to switch over to a new template which should have some cool features. Unfortunately, when we let it go live the text in each successive post got smaller, and smaller, and smaller,...I have no idea why. We'll try again soon.The only blog inspired by a Bumper Sticker.

Now this, is a great moment of science!

2006-07-23T18:21:00.000-07:00

Ramesh Padman, clad in white lab coat with biology degree in hand, staged a one man protest in front of the office of Congressman Randy Kuhl. Padman was protesting Kuhl's support for the President's veto of the stem cell funding bill.Eric Massa is running against Kuhl in the 29th district of New York. Massa is a cancer survivor and is a very strong supporter of stem cell research.I am a little

An open letter to Wesley J. Smith:

2006-07-22T11:23:00.000-07:00

Wesley J. SmithSenior Fellow Discovery Institute Center for Science and CultureDear Mr. Smith,I sympathize with the distress you expressed at learning you will have to financially contribute to your chief executive’s decision to provide $150 million to support embryonic stem cell research in the state of California.“The people of my state--unfortunately--voted to financially support this research

Elizabeth Dole to Carry “Snowflake Baby”!

2006-07-18T21:03:00.000-07:00

Pharma Bawd, Science CorrespondentWASHINGTON DC- Senator Elizabeth Dole today announced her plans to become the world's oldest birth mother by adopting a discarded embryo from a North Carolina fertility clinic.Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole recently voted against a bill that would provide federal funds for embryonic stem cell research using discarded embryos from fertility clinics. Embryonic

Let us Give Thanks.

2006-07-18T14:48:00.000-07:00

The Senate Bill to fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research has passed by a vote of 63 to 37. This is not a large enough majority to overcome Bush's promised veto. 67 votes would be required to override Bush's first veto if he uses it here. The other two peices of legislation passed as well which will give him cover for vetoeing this bill. The other bills ban "fetus farming" and provide funds for adult

Correction.

2006-07-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

In this post on Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpes Virus and AIDS denialists, I attributed the discovery of KSHV-8 to the wrong group. It was actually discovered by Chang Y, Cesarman E, Pessin MS, Lee F, Culpepper J, Knowles DM, Moore PS. in this paper. This discovery is even mentioned in the Mesri paper I cited. I was just being a little sloppy in order to get the post finished. After having the error

A conversation with a virologist.

2006-07-11T22:19:00.000-07:00

I had a nice email conversation with a virologist recently. We started discussing HIV/AIDS denial so I pointed him to Dean's World. Needless to say he was less than impressed with that bastion of "skepticism", and he took it upon himself to answer the six questions posed there by Harvey Bialy.I had intended to write my own post drawing heavily from his email, but he knows a lot more about

Well, someone has to do it.

2006-07-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

I guess it might as well be me.Tara points to this list comparing scientists to religion. Cute but nonsense.On the other hand, as I read more and more evolution denial and HIV/AIDS denial threads I have greater and greater difficulty telling the two apart. Here’s a partial list of equivalancies I’ve noticed:HIV/AIDS- EvolutionDenial - DenialInternet - ChurchPadian Study – Cambrian ExplosionPeter

They Make of Themselves, a Caricature.

2006-07-09T21:47:00.000-07:00

Most recently with the HPV vaccine and now this: “"The last thing the Third World needs is more population control, because their populations are already facing dramatic aging, but they don't have anything like the financial resources we do to take care of all these older people."” "...Gates' and Buffett's philanthropy is a "bomb" in its own

Panel Unanimously reccommends Cervical Cancer Vaccine.

2006-06-30T09:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/health/30vaccine.html?_r=1&oref=slogin "A federal vaccine advisory panel voted unanimously yesterday to recommend that all girls and women ages 11 to 26 receive a new vaccine that prevents most cases of cervical cancer. The vote all but commits the federal government to spend as much as $2 billion alone on a program to buy the vaccine for the nation's

What the ... ????

2006-06-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

"Hey! What the ...????"Tap! Tap! Tap!"Is this thing on?""Holy shit guys! I think this thing is still on! What should I do?"Pharma Bawd: "Say something!""Like what?"Pharma Bawd: "It's a blog say something witty, or insightful,... or pointless, or... whatever! Just say something!""So, umm,... How 'bout those Hurricanes?""You know I here they've begun picking up in intensity due to global

Epigenetics and Cancer

2006-02-28T20:25:00.000-08:00

by Pharma Bawd“Although individual genes vary in hypomethylation, all tumours examined so far, both benign and malignant, have shown global reduction of DNA methylation33, 34, 35. This is a striking feature of neoplasia.”Nature Reviews Genetics had a good paper up about epigenetics and cancer in January. I planned to write about it, but..., life gets in the way. Not to mention reading blogs,

Everybody's Talking About Herpes Viruses!

2006-02-22T21:57:00.000-08:00

Tara's even got a picture up of her infection. I have a similar picture of myself, except every one of my pox was covered in pink Calamine lotion. It didn't do much to help the itching, but it sure made me look worse!Meanwhile, a gang of HIV/AIDS deniers are pestering her to explain why certain groups of AIDS infected people suffer different diseases than others. At least one answer to their

Genentech to Colon Cancer Patients: BOHICA!

2006-02-16T20:31:00.000-08:00

Well really it’s not their colon cancer patients they’re telling to bend over but their new-found breast and lung cancer patients they want to grab their ankles. Genentech had its drug Avastin (bevacizumab), a monoclonal antibody for Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) which prevents the growth of new blood vessels to cancerous tumors,

Miracle Cure for Herpes!

2006-02-14T22:29:00.000-08:00

The Amazing Australian “silver bullet” that kills herpes I & II on contactand rapidly removes humiliating signs of breakouts Welcome to Skeptical Pharmacy Friday!I'll be your host, Pharma Bawd.With 25 million Americans suffering from oral herpes (cold sores or fever blisters) and about 45 million suffering from genital herpes infections, herpes is the most widely spread sexually

Pure IDiocy!

2006-02-13T12:11:00.000-08:00

I realize that there comes a point of diminishing returns when criticizing and making fun of the intellectually vacuous propaganda that is "Intelligent Design". But I just can't help myself.Pharma Bawd made me go there to tell her what they were up to, and I saw this:Aarrghh!!! Of course! Why didn't I notice that models of DNA are designed before now? It's so obvious now that I've had the

I wonder what they'd do with the animals in a privatized National Park?

2006-02-09T18:55:00.000-08:00

PZ Myers points out this post at Northstate Science which discusses the 24 year old college drop out who attempted to censor NASA scientists. (The News that George Deutsch had never finished college was brought to light by blogger Nick Anthis of Scientific Activist.) Deutsch was appointed to his post at NASA by the Bush administration for his efforts on the campaign trail. As Northstate Science

My Dirty Little Secret, and Soil Microorganisms.

2006-02-07T20:45:00.000-08:00

by Pharma BawdI have a dirty little secret. I’ve never told a soul, but Tara’s call for submissions has fond memories of my last encounter flooding over me, filling me with guilt. I’m so embarrassed! What if my children found out? I can’t tell my husband, he wouldn’t understand. Hell, I don’t even understand why I do it. I just know I can’t stop. I remember my first time like it

Let’s Talk About Herpes.

2006-02-06T06:55:00.000-08:00

by Pharma BawdThis is a very strange case of blog-imitating-life-anticipated-by-advertising. Maybe advertisers really have learned how to read our minds to target advertising based on our thoughts. To tell you the truth, I expected it to come from Google first.It’s all my fault really, I suggested we drop the Google Adsense ads in protest of Google agreeing to censor its search results for the

Metabolism of Evolution Information in the Blogosphere.

2006-02-05T13:01:00.000-08:00

A post-doc in the Moment of Science Laboratories has worked out the biochemical pathway by which evolution information is metabolized by the Blogosphere.Click here for the clickable image.Oh, just in case anyone hasn't taken biochemistry.And, no. We don't plan on determining blogospheric metabolism of evolution information to this level of detail.Apologies to all those other great enzymes who

What's a safe following distance...

2006-02-03T04:53:00.000-08:00

for Bison?Posted to the Friday Ark.The only blog inspired by a Bumper Sticker.

Methodological Materialism Versus the Monsters Inc. Fallacy.

2006-01-28T12:08:00.000-08:00

by Pharma BawdIf you haven’t seen Monsters Inc. you should, it’s a great movie! (Trailer here.)(This happened before Christmas. It took me a while to find the time...)My children, boys four and five years old, got the movie Monsters Inc. on DVD as an early Christmas gift. The movie is an animated “film” by Pixar, the story line revolves around the misadventures of two monsters, Mike and Sully,

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend.

2006-01-27T20:57:00.000-08:00

This maxim holds true in most parts of the world, including the plant and animal kingdoms. One of the really fascinating things about biology is the complex relationships that organisms develop with their environment, including the neighboring organisms with whom they share a common habitat.Lest you think I’m engaging in anthropomorphism applying this saying to organisms other than humans

Is That a Frog in your Fence Post? Or...

2006-01-26T17:55:00.000-08:00

So, a while back, I was delivering some compostable materials to my compost pile, when I happened to look down the pole for the chain link fence dividing my yard from my neighbor's, and what do you think I saw?At first, I thought it was some kind of alien, you know, like Yoda. All I could see was two beady little eyes looking up at me from a little green face (I used the flash to take the picture

Paleogenomics, the Future of Evolutionary Biology?

2006-01-22T19:00:00.000-08:00

Last month, scientists sequenced 28 million base pairs of DNA from the genome of Mammuthus primigenius, this DNA was was found to be 98.5% sequence identical to that of Loxodonta africana. Interestingly, the wooly mammoth appears to have diverged from the Asian elephant more recently than Asian elephants and African elephants diverged from their common ancestor. All three shared a common

Wild 2's "Cosmic Bootie", Stardust Probe Returns

2006-01-16T06:44:00.000-08:00

Update: Video of Stardust's 29,000 mph reentry is here. It sort of became a comet itself!"Already got scientific results which is great!" -- The very first particle examined is a transparent mineral grain settling discussions about whether comets do indeed contain minerals, glass, etc.Opportunity!: The interstellar dust (not the comet tail dust) collected in the Stardust Interstellar Dust

PZ Meyers' Immortal Soul Barbeque Sauce!

2006-01-13T17:36:00.000-08:00

It's Great for dipping McNuggets and,... well,... anything you like to eat!!(It's the best I could do with my meager photoshop skills. Inspired by Stubb's, which is actually pretty good!)The only blog inspired by a bumper sticker.

"Some pig", "Terrific", "Radiant", "Humble",

2006-01-12T20:43:00.000-08:00

Mild-mannered slop-swillers by day,Cancer fighting wonder pigs by night?These pigs from Taiwan had the Green Fluorescent Protein gene from the jellyfish aqueora victoriana ?? transformed into them prior to implantation into their mothers. Three pigs were born out of 265 embryos used for transformation.Researchers hope to use the pigs to study human disease. The green fluorescence of the pig cells

Ten Years of Biotech Crops.

2006-01-12T19:17:00.000-08:00

The number of hectares of farm land used to grow genetically modified plants grew by 11% in 2005. That's an increase from 200 million acres in 2004 to 222 million acres planted in 2005, 60% of that cropland were planted with herbicide tolerant soybeans.The continued adoption of biotech crops in industrialized countries is not surprising and, frankly, means very little to me except that farmers

Houston, we have a problem...

2006-01-12T16:35:00.000-08:00

In discussions about the science of Global Warming, the earth's albedo has become an increasingly important point of discussion. The earth's albedo is the ratio of solar radiation reflected by the earth to the total amount of radiation that reaches the earth from the sun. Clouds, the polar ice caps, forests, the oceans, deserts,... all contribute to the earth's albedo by absorbing or reflecting

The Lord works in Mysterious ways....

2006-01-12T13:40:00.000-08:00

My sympathies to the Discovery Institute, I know how annoying this can be.After the Kitzmiller verdict I feel bad about this. I really do! Because, you know, I can empathize with the guys at the Discovery Institute. I mean, imagine that you have your own little thing, let’s give it a name like, I don’t know... well let’s just call it science for now. Let’s say you’ve got this gig and you’re

Kitzmiller Roundup at eSkeptic

2005-12-21T04:37:00.000-08:00

Ed Brayton (St. Cynic) and Burt Humburg have written an article for eSkeptic magazine, discussing the Kitzmiller case and ruling. “...After 40 days and nights of testimony, the first evolution-Intelligent Design trial of the 21st century drew to a close in Federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. While evolution trials in the 20th century had

Kitzmiller decision conclusion of Judge Jones

2005-12-21T04:14:00.000-08:00

The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes it abundantly clear that the Board’s ID Policy violates the Establishment Clause. In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious,

Dembski: "I told you so."

2005-12-20T20:39:00.000-08:00

(Update: Apparently there are a lot of people eager to here what Dembski had to say about the ruling. He has temporarily exceeded his Bandwidth for the site.)(Update2: He's up again.) William Dembski has broken his silence on the Kitzmiller verdict. Several bloggers have been anticipating a reaction from Dr. Dembski, who is known as “the Issac Newton of Information Theory” and

Intelligent Design Creationism ruled Unconstitutional!

2005-12-20T10:29:00.000-08:00

Well the verdict is in! Judge Jones has ruled in the case of Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District, and he has decided to rule broadly against the teaching of Intelligent Design Creationism in public school science classes calling the whole endeavor an “inherently religious” alternative to the theory of evolution.This is excellent news not only for students in the Dover School District, but

We're just getting started here.

2005-12-20T09:45:00.001-08:00

Still figuring out the publishing and layout aspects of having a blog. Things will be undergoing changes here for a while. So far we plan on having three bloggers" Moment of Science-- A science educator and scientist. Pharma-Bawd-- A former biologist, now working as a sales rep for the pharmaceutical industry. Reverend Timothy Tidwell-- An ordained Minister and fan and student of science.

Let Us Give Thanks,

2005-12-17T11:46:00.000-08:00

for S-1317.Congratulations to the US Senate for passing a bill to fund a national umbilical cord blood stem cell bank in the US. Senate Republicans prevented a related bill, H.R. 810, that would have overturned President Bush’s ban on research exploring the full potential of stem cells for regenerative medicine from coming to a vote this year. But at least the Republicans were forced to spend