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Here’s what we know so far: CRU’s emails were hacked, the 2000s will easily be the hottest decade on record, and the planet keeps warming thanks to us!
added on 24 Nov 2009
As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution). So begins the Re...
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Merck hiding negative results about drugs, again
added on 24 Nov 2009
You’d think that after the Vioxx fiasco, Merck might be a little more careful about pushing drugs that don’t offer much benefit. Well, if you did think that, you’d be wrong. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine this week shows that two very, very profitable cholesterol drugs are p...
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SWAT4LS: "Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics and Proteochemometrics"
added on 24 Nov 2009
Please find below the presentation I gave today at SWAT4LS:Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics and ProteochemometricsView more documents from egonw.
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Is east Antarctic ice melting?
added on 23 Nov 2009
The ice sheet covering east Antarctica may have been melting since 2006, according to new research, contradicting previous suggestions that it has remained stable or even grown in mass. Using measurements for 2002 to 2009 from a twin pair of satellites, researchers at the University of Texas at ...
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Flu Vaccine, Dystonia, Cheerleaders, And The Truth
added on 23 Nov 2009
In my efforts to have a rational discussion about the H1N1 flu shot I have been increasingly confronted with the following fear, expressed most commonly by concerned mothers and teenagers: Did you see that video on Youtube about the cheerleader who got the flu shot? Something called dystonia? She...
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