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Posts made in June, 2011

Obama’s "Gainful Employment" Rules For Colleges And What It Means For Science

You've seen the advertisements on television; schools that market heavily with dubious promises of how wonderful the job market is, but then students who incur student loan debt to get those degrees - loans which are unlimited since the government in the early 1990s said higher education meant more money - find that in a market where everyone has some sort of degree or another, it doesn't mean...

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Plywood Gives You Cancer? Politics "Have Hijacked The Scientific Process"

The National Toxicology Program has released its latest warning on things that 'give' you cancer and they include two things people come into contact with every day.If you have walked into a new house and smelled that 'new house' smell, you are now ingesting a carcinogen, according to the report.   Let the lawsuits begin.   The issue is formaldehyde and they say, as they also said about...

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Monkey Menstruation On Meth Or The "Biblical Power To Cure" Of The NIH?

Science can't catch a break this week.   A site devoted to ridiculing Democrats is faux outraged that the NIH funded $3.6 million to study the menstruation cycles of rhesus monkeys on any number of addictive drugs.    read more

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