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Domestic terrorists threaten womens clinics

October 17, 2001 – 12:00 am

The other decentralized network of terrorists operating in the US has been sending womens’ clincs letters claiming the envelopes are filled with anthrax spores.
It is worth remember that this other network of terrorists have been operating in the US for far longer than al Quida.

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Archive of Red Rock Eater WTC/Pentagon Attack Links

September 27, 2001 – 12:00 am

Phil Agre collected hundreds of URLs related to the WTC/Pentagon attacks. All the URLs are now archived in one place.

More like this: censorship, charity, conservatives, cryptography, disasters, economics, environment, health, history, hoaxes, politics, privacy, progressives, pundits, religion, sources, statistics, the-americas, transportation, us-government, web-logs | Posted under culture, media, writing | Comments Off

The Long Nightmares of Republicans

July 10, 2001 – 12:00 am

[ via Cyn G. ] A researcher at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley reports Republicans have more frequent and intense nightmares than Democrats. They did not say if the nightmares involved being drawn and quartered by an angry mob of pensioners from West Palm Beach.

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Doctors v. Zealots: The Morning-After Pill Wars

June 21, 2001 – 12:00 am

Where else in the world, except maybe the nations under the yoke of sharia, would hysterical religious cretins and their sycophantic politicians disrupt medical policy?
Yes, America of course.
The latest example of mouth-breathing winning over reason is the case of the Morning-After pill, a high dose of the active ingredients you find in a birth control [...]

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How being a cyborg can make you feel more human

January 22, 2001 – 12:00 am

My friend Janet has an essay on her insulin pump in today’s Salon. She says the pump doesn’t make her feel like a member of the Borg. She has type one diabetes, and the pump has freed her from some of the drudgery which makes everyday tasks such as eating into a chore and a [...]

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Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?

December 3, 2000 – 12:00 am

ETA: Many people are coming to this entry via searches after recent news reports, so I’m editing this entry, originally from December of 2000, to add new information.
The research mentioned in the news appears to be an article in the Journal of Veterinary Parasitology, A decade of discoveries in veterinary protozoology changes our concept [...]

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World AIDS Day

December 1, 2000 – 12:00 am

Today is World AIDS Day. I’m not participating in the Day Without WebLogs, but I want a cure found.

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Freemed.org Mission Statement

June 20, 1999 – 12:00 am

[ via Freshmeat ] Here’s the first release of a GPL’ed medical practice management system written in PHP. The goal of the developers is not only to get an Open Source package to doctors, but also gather data to share among providers on treatment outcomes so they can make treatment choices checked against broad populations, [...]

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A New P&G Urban Legend

March 31, 1999 – 12:00 am

I rarely have sympathy for big, faceless companies, but you have to feel sorry for Proctor and Gamble. First the Amway crowd circulates rumors that P&G are Satanic. Then someone claimed a cleaning product contains Agent Orange. Now there’s a rumor circulating that claims their new fabric deodorizer kills pets. Fortunately, that’s what Urban Legend [...]

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Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience

March 30, 1999 – 12:00 am

The Onion parodies mumble-jumble health claims.
According to the product’s website, ‘Only MagnaSoles utilize the healing power of crystals to re-stimulate dead foot cells with vibrational biofeedback… a process similar to that by which medicine makes people better.’

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Cold Remedies of the Beast? [ via suggestion ]

February 17, 1999 – 12:00 am

“The most frequently asked question we field at The Monticello Companies, Inc. is why do we have the number 666 on our Monticello Drug Products.”

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Healthcare Mergers Restrict Women’s Access to Birth Control and Abortion Services

January 7, 1999 – 12:00 am

When one of the partners in a hospital/HMO merger is a Catholic hospital, that hospital’s policies on birth control, etc. tend to dominate in the firm resulting from the merger.
So, as healthcare organizations merge to take advantage of an economic climate that encourges linking up, the numbers of HMOs who will provide reproductive care, other [...]

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How evolution and selection affects how and why we become ill

October 10, 1998 – 12:00 am