Biology in the News Explained

A good day for science and medicine

Myriad Genetics has rightly lost the lawsuit by plaintiffs trying to undo their right to patent genes. But given the makeup of our courts after eight years of President Bush, is their any hope for defending ourselves against the current pro-corporation onslaught?

More climate change lies!

Those evil liars who wrote the Climate Change report are caught out again!

Universal health care reduces abortion rate?

Would the passage of the U.S. health reform bill without the Stupak Amendment affect the abortion rate? The available data is analyzed in order to make a prediction.

Carnival round-up

Carnivals on education, politics, opinions, and science are all out, with some posts by Bioblog.

Sociobiology shows us why racial integration is so hard, and so important

We need to keep making an effort to interact with people not like us, because if we do not, our social brains easily fall into the trap of demonizing them. School integration is still an obvious way to do this.