Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Notes"There’s a saying, “Science is not a democracy.” It doesn’t matter how many millions of people there are on the other side. There’s one right, and it’s perfectly possible for all the rest to be wrong." -
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Notes ‘Superbug’ stalked NIH hospital last year, killing sixThis story is completely terrifying. And it’s one of the ones where the more you know, the scarier it is.
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Notes"The patent didn’t cover the drugs themselves, nor any particular method for measuring metabolite levels—these were already widely used in the medical profession. Instead, the patent covered the concept that particular metabolite levels “indicate a need” to raise or lower drug dosage."This is completely insane, and the Supreme Court was right to strike it down.
Supreme Court saves medical profession from diagnostic patents
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Notes Scientists to cancer: "You know what? Fuck you. We're gonna give you AIDS."I know it’s more complicated than that, but that’s how I like to think of this story.
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Dean Baker’s plan to make drugs cheap for everyone.
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Smallpox really sucked (via Andrew Sullivan).
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A happy ending to farmer's anus woes
It could always be worse.
