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So here's a photo of the pumpkin I carved 21 Oct. I don't think I need to say anything...but Change is hopefully coming!

McShame pisses off the rowdy science crowd!

Well I didn't think much about the comment McCain made about the 'overhead projector for the Chicago Planetarium' in the debate the other night - other than it was just one example of 'pork' he probably could have used that was connected to O. I was more struck by his proposal to put ALL govt programs on freeze or cut except defense (I could just hear the NSF dollars evaporating). Yet apparently he really did use a BAD example and a number of people in science are pissed about his choice - see article about Sky Theatre funding.

Add to this his comments on govt programs the far right's lack of support for stem cell research and I think McShame should pull out of the science field as well as MI!

A Bitch Slap to Robert Gallo!

For those geeks out there that know of the long running feud between American retrovirus pioneer Robert Gallo and French HIV researchers Luc Montagnier and (to a lesser extent by association) Francoise Barre-Sinoussi - the genesis of this feud is highlighted very effectively in the movie "And The Band Played On" - it seems with the award of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology those in Stocholm have spoken! Condolences to Gallo (although I tend to side with the French on this one)!