Quickies
Quickies: Homeopathy Recalled for Containing Medicine, Sloth Exists for 45 Years
Amanda is busy working undercover in The Vatican, where she hopes to find out once and for all what the Pope wears under his robes. In the meanwhile, I have taken over the Quickies!
- Homeopathy company recalls products that may have real medicine: “In this case, however, the FDA found that the process Terra Medica used to make six of its products could introduce the antibiotic penicillin into Terra Medica liquids, tablets, capsules, ointments and suppositories.” (via Surly Amy)
- How Malaria Defeats Our Drugs: “But victories in malaria are often short-lived. In the early 2000s, the team started hearing rumours from western Cambodia that ACTs were becoming less effective. White tried to stay calm. He had heard plenty of false alarms about incurable Cambodian patients, but it always turned out that they were taking counterfeit drugs. “I was just hoping it was another of those,” he says.”
- Students and faculty boycott graduation over radical religious creationist speakers: “Outraged Tech professors who plan to skip the ceremony say the Gianfortes’ beliefs fly in the face of the science being taught on campus. And one student group is considering holding its own graduation ceremony with a different speaker.” (via Cody)
- Support the Free CeCe documentary on Kickstarter: “The film will begin with the events that took place in Minneapolis, MN on June 5, 2011 at 12AM, which led to the death of Dean Schmitz and the incarceration of Chrishaun Reed “CeCe” McDonald, told from an in-prison interview.”
- Cute Animal Friday! Happy 45th birthday to Paula the sloth at the Halle Zoo in Germany!
Cute sloth.
I cringe a tad at the article’s description of the Gianforte views as “radical”…extreme yes, but not radical. Sadly, they are very mainstream for Americans.
The very definition of “radical” is something that is at the root of, or fundamental to, a person or thing. It can also mean something that is in the extreme. Creationist beliefs absolutely are radical in both of these uses.
“Homeopathy Recalled for Containing Medicine” Best. Headline. Ever.
re Malaria – In the recent Radiolab podcast, episode “kill em all” they talk about genetically modifying mosquitos to tackle malaria.
How is it that we manage to make thousands of species go extinct every year without even trying and yet we still have mosquitoes? How has this not become an issue of global cooperation? Can we not all get behind exterminating these awful disease bags? Even if we have to nuke the planet from orbit and recolonize an irradiated hell-scape and subsist off lab-grown algae, wouldn’t that be worth it to get these murderous, buzzing mother-fuckers out of our faces?
Vote ALT3 in 2016. Trillions will be spent, billions will die, but I PROMISE I will rid us of mosquitoes, whatever the cost.