I wrote about this problem here; now Nick Kristof has picked up on it. How can scholars investigate how AIDS spreads without using words that make the religious right blush? Perhaps this seems like an obscure issue. It’s not: the fundamental question is whether elements of the Bush administration are politicizing science, using budgets, advisory …

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Ain’t the internet wonderful? Here’s a site devoted to images of pay phones. I was looking for an image because it occurred to me that with the proliferation of cell phones, the pay phone may be going the way of the dodo or passenger pigeon. For those of us without cell phones, that would be …

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