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Biologists have the same affect on goverment policy as Climate Scientists: none.  

Ms. ATinNM worked on antibiotic resistence transfer factors in the mid 70s.  Her lab was showing the use of Tetracyline in animal food, only used to increase the weight gain per pound of food, was creating Tetracyline resistent bacteria in the human gut.  The major researcher pissed someone off at the FDA and the lab was shut down.

Just as snark: the lab got its samples of environmental e. coli by swabing the tables of the local McDonald's.

by ATinNM on Fri Mar 30th, 2007 at 01:06:07 PM EST
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Ms ATM is my new personal hero.. if you ever get divorced.. make me know :)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Fri Mar 30th, 2007 at 01:56:05 PM EST
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