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It seems that the GOP considers even pandemic preparadness a form of welfarism:
When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans.
Obey and other advocates [...]
Popular culture tends to think of ultrasound imagery as objective, immutable, authoritative when, in fact, it’s but one stage in a long historical process of ‘embryo visualization’, as scrupulously documented in the current Making Visible Embryos exhibition:
Developing embryos were first drawn in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Modern medicine and biology exploited technical innovations as pictures and [...]
The Man of Commerce, 1889, by A.F. McKay, originally uploaded by joneilortiz.
Massimo Pigliucci of Rationally Speaking has a short post up on the many problems with “the idea that the DNA sequence of an organism’s genome is analogous to a computer ‘program,’ and that it provides the ‘blueprint’ for building said organism.”
He then goes on to list the many ways in which this idea of ‘mapping’ [...]
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