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Silly Science

Recently, politicians have gotten a lot of ink and air time by making fun of federally funded science projects.  For example, Wake Forest University scientists are studying monkeys under the influence of cocaine in a project titled “Effect of Cocaine Self-Administration on Metabotropic Glutamate Systems.”
How silly can you get?  Let me try.  I found a [...]

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Could Senator Schumer have “stimulus” buyer’s remorse?

It’s been a year now since our “jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs” stimulus bill has been passed and many are wondering if they missed something. We’ve been hearing about “created jobs”, “saved jobs”, “green jobs” and my favorite “shovel ready jobs”. Yet, not one mention of jobs for foreign countries. Apparently there is [...]

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