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	<title>Acid Test &#187; science meets politics</title>
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		<title>Condemned to Repeat?</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/condemned-to-repeat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/condemned-to-repeat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before.  The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman on target AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/krugman-on-target-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/krugman-on-target-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s lucky he&#8217;s got tenure.  With his track record, he&#8217;d be drummed out of economics otherwise. I mean, this is the field which, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Education: Who Needs It?</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/science-education-who-needs-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/science-education-who-needs-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence suggests an awful lot of people need it.  A recent study by Harris Interactive for the California Academy of Sciences found the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Geoengineering: a cure worse than the disease</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/02/geoengineering-a-cure-worse-than-the-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/02/geoengineering-a-cure-worse-than-the-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global warming news is grim.  Just two recent headlines: Acid oceans need urgent action and Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>About Gooseberries</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/08/about-gooseberries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/08/about-gooseberries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My issue of the Royal Horticultural Society Garden magazine arrived today, and the first thing I saw was:
Competitive gooseberry growing in northwest England has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frying lettuce is not the answer</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/08/frying-lettuce-is-not-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/08/frying-lettuce-is-not-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another story in the category of &#8220;We&#8217;re from the government.  We&#8217;re here to help.&#8221;  The reporting makes me want to bang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less heat, more light: solving the energy crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/02/less-heat-more-light-solving-the-energy-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/02/less-heat-more-light-solving-the-energy-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The planet&#8217;s big problems relate to energy.  Using it is warming the planet.  Getting it is causing wars.  Running out of it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Support the Biofuels Moratorium</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/10/support-the-biofuels-moratorium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/10/support-the-biofuels-moratorium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science meets politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the BBC, a report on what to do about the bad side of biofuels.  Delay use until we can do it right.  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nukes can never be the answer</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/nukes-can-never-be-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/nukes-can-never-be-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics meets personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One bizarre effect of global warming is how it&#8217;s become a reason to make the problems worse. 
Global warming is so bad, that we have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Profits cost us cures</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics meets personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know nobody here needs convincing that the free market doesn&#8217;t provide the best medical care for all.  But it&#8217;s not just the care [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Biofuels: good, bad, and ugly</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/biofuels-good-bad-and-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/biofuels-good-bad-and-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hearing more and more about biofuels because they&#8217;re an alternative fuel (i.e. &#8220;good&#8221;), because they don&#8217;t increase carbon dioxide in the air (&#8220;good&#8221;), because [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Female Genital Mutilation</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/female-genital-mutilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/female-genital-mutilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s gone by other names, primarily female circumscision, as if it was nothing more than the male equivalent of removing the foreskin.  It&#8217;s supposedly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gene Scans and Single Payer Health Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/gene-scans-and-single-payer-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/gene-scans-and-single-payer-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, an avantgarde diagnostic technique might seem to have little in common with a beancounter topic like insurance.  The first glance couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Global warming: links to rebut deniers</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/global-warming-links-to-rebut-deniers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/global-warming-links-to-rebut-deniers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Live Earth concerts rolling and the wingnuts whining in the woodwork, I thought it might be useful to give the Shakers one of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tuberculosis: the problem we could have avoided</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/tuberculosis-the-problem-we-could-have-avoided/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/tuberculosis-the-problem-we-could-have-avoided/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People went on red alert about SARS, where the fatality rate was approximately 10%.  Bird flu doesn&#8217;t even spread between people (yet), but we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fraud, funding, and science</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/12/fraud-funding-and-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/12/fraud-funding-and-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything from health to wealth depends on science in the modern world, so, obviously, scientific results had better be rock-solid.  And yet honesty in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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