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	<description>Here Lies Truth</description>
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		<title>Killing off the Ta-Tas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie&#8217;s announcement that she had had a prophylactic double mastectomy prompted a thoughtful piece on NPR today. In it, Todd Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota, discussed the motivations underlying such decisions. The number of women choosing this extreme form of preventive medicine has risen dramatically in recent years and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Composite photography now and then</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/295/composite-photography-now-and-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student* linked me to The Postnational Monitor, which features composite photographs of different racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. By superimposing many images (selected by unstated criteria) and centering them on the eyes and other key facial features, they produce visual &#8220;averages&#8221;. Here&#8217;s an average German male: &#160; And here&#8217;s an average Irish female: Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personalized placebo effect</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/286/personalized-placebo-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archibald Garrod]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rufus of Ephesus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new article in Nature explores the placebo effect&#8211;therapeutic benefit from taking medicine without active ingredients. On the one hand, minimizing the placebo effect is a principle of ethical medical practice, a bulwark against hype, oversell, and charlatanism. Without controlling for therapeutic effects not caused by the drug, one may overestimate the drug&#8217;s potency. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexuagenerian Double Helix</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/281/sexuagenerian-double-helix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franic H.C. Crick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not &#8220;DNA day.&#8221; That&#8217;s in April&#8211;fittingly, the date of publication. Today is double helix day. On this date in 1953, Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA. What better day to lay to rest a few myths about it? 1) It sparked a scientific revolution. The double helix caused a stir in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike a blow for (and against) academic freedom</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/279/strike-a-blow-for-and-against-academic-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/279/strike-a-blow-for-and-against-academic-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligent Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panda's Black Box]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in favor of academic freedom. I am opposed to &#8220;academic freedom.&#8221;  “America, meet the new creationism-in-sheep&#8217;s-clothing: The ‘academic freedom’ bill.” So begins Dana Liebelson on The Week, in an article on the latest version of the anti-science wedge being pushed into our schools. According to the National Center for Science Education, since 2004 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving is Healthy</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/274/giving-is-healthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dear Valued Faculty Member: It has been a challenging year for Kashkow Medicine. First, we completed the King Mullah Abdullah Medical Multiplex, the first healthcare resort to be attached to a major medical school. The KMAMM is a component of the Kaschkow International Strategy for Monetizing Yet Another Sector of Society (KISMYASS). Completing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless Promotion Dept.</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/269/shameless-promotion-dept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a review, in today&#8217;s Science magazine, of The Annotated &#38; Illustrated Double Helix. A must for serious Watsonologists and DNA Studies majors. &#8220;Novel features of considerable interest&#8221;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Toward a historioriography of science &amp; social media</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/271/toward-a-historioriography-of-science-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/271/toward-a-historioriography-of-science-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this stuff. The idea for this panel has generated some high-quality discussion around the histsci community. Just wanted to quickly gather them here for anyone thinking about these issues&#8211;hopefully we can keep this going! Jai Virdi excavated her 2010 article from the HSS newsletter, pecked out with a primitive stone tool on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilary Rose on eugenics &amp; genetic medicine</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/268/hilary-rose-on-eugenics-genetic-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/268/hilary-rose-on-eugenics-genetic-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just saw this clip of an interview with the inveterate science critic Hilary Rose with The Guardian. She expresses beautifully and forcefully the idea I try, however awkwardly, to trace in The Science of Human Perfection and, often more humorously, here on Genotopia. She discusses how eugenics has always had a strand of preventive medicine, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>News of genes for: the latest examples—and further reflections on why we persist in believing in them</title>
		<link>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/264/the-latest-genes-for-further-reflections-on-why-we-persist-in-believing-in-them/</link>
		<comments>http://genotopia.scienceblog.com/264/the-latest-genes-for-further-reflections-on-why-we-persist-in-believing-in-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>genotopia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armpits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genes for]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetic determinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hype]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a basic contradiction in the lay response to genome news. Somehow, the more we learn about how complex and nuanced gene action is, the more we seem drawn to “gene-for” explanations. Collectively, we know that genes do not directly determine or control traits, let alone behaviors. And we know that single genes do [...]]]></description>
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