http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=85455 Many other growers use antibiotics on fruits and vegetables. In fact, antibiotic resistance likely comes more from excessive use in ranching and agriculture rather than direct use in humans IMHO.

In the case specifically addressed in TFA, the fact that the patient was on both methadone and Oxy simultaneously is mind-boggling. Indeed. I am a medical doctor and see this occasionally in terminal patients; Used to prescribe combos like that myself for patients with bone ca. or similar if they were monitored. However, sending people home on methadone along with other opioids for chronic pain control is a very bad idea. Folks using methadone already often turn up in our ED dead after using pills they buy elsewhere; and these are "professionals". I don't really know anyone who does it (except on very very rare cases) and I spend a lot of time with medicaid patients. This is the sort of thing NHS does; shouldn't happen here.

"That’s because real science thrives on criticism, since it’s only through critiques that the potential errors of a particular method can be assessed — that’s why research is supposed to be published in peer-reviewed journals as well. Suing is the antithesis of that idea. ..." Unless you are talking about AGW; because then no criticism can be allowed. /snark off

And yet YOU won't believe this:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/747.abstract Mainly because you prefer to bash people with different viewpoints. Just another arrogant asshole.

You are, without question, the most breathtakingly stupid poster I have ever read in all my years at /.. Congratulations. You are proof that God exists; Nature and evolution alone would never allow your parents and you to survive this long.

Yes Yes Yes Yes and Yes. And why is it so very very important to /. that every attempt at scientific method on either side be shot down to a default political position?

If you read the article, near the top he is damned for receiving grants from "the Koch Foundation". That means the entire article is a leftist hit piece; and Leftists lie about everything. No need to read further. Look for an objective piece on the subject somewhere else before you form an opinion.

Excuse me asshole, what are you implying? Because what I'm reading is an incredibly ignorant screed by someone who obviously knows nothing of terrorism , tea party activists or the real World. BTW, "tea-bagging" is what your boyfriend does with you; it is not the grass roots political group.

Thank you for pointing this out. This religion of AGW is really way out of hand. Can we please get back to, oh I don't know.....how about some freaking Science instead?

Thank you. I have worked with many doctors who were extremely competent with network systems. A department chief who actually set up something like the OP did (calendar and patient lab results) FOR the IT dept for his doctors, a fellow who did his graduate degree before medicine at Berkeley working on.....BSD. And at my current hospital the custom system for EMH was developed by a former department chief doctor. All I'm reading in response is a bunch of arrogant IT people banging the old drum that doctors are arrogant pricks. Yes, if he is behind the firewall IT should share control of the server and I would suggest running a wireless system out of his office just for his department if he doesn't want to use Google and IT will not or cannot integrate his ideas into the network. In my hospital personal laptops can be connected to the network after being vetted by IT (all the State supplied computers are roughly 13 years old) which means they keep your machine for a week or two, snooping through your patient files (a HIPPA violation as they are not involved in the patient's care) but they will not allow Macs because....well, just because they are IT and they say so. One doc used his iPad to connect to the secure wireless network and access patient labs and history in real time while seeing the patients---the scenario that IT claims is the future. It should be because that doc found it incredibly efficient and fast; and he was written up and ordered never to do something like that again.

...Trusted ID suspended pending completion of examination of email content and all online activities using government issued ID. Legal hearing required to restore online privileges.

me a bit. When I was in medical school on the wards the vioxx drug rep would bring us food and put on the most outrageous bullshit presentations. The data was all skewed, the studies were flawed and we knew the damn drug was a killer. We ate their food and took their "studies" apart. Heck, my pharm D professor told us in basic science classes never to prescribe it.

I understood the "virus" to simply be a picture of Steve Jobs with a caption telling the aliens to rewrite their entire fucking OS code immediately. The alien in the window was actually a barista......(open network).

That was the stupidest post I have ever read. It started out promising but the point of view was exploited and expanded on by other anti-capitalists and isolationists. Soon the poster tried to salvage his personal position by mentioning that Nauru failed by not encouraging a diverse economy--even using popular buzzwords--, but the corruption of arrogance set in and he failed to make anything but vague charges of imperialist lackey while maintaining his hipper and smarter than everyone attitude; never producing an opinion of his own. Not all commenting is good. In many cases, the commenters suck while using the opinions of others while never actually studying history or economics. Often this attitude benefits only the arrogant and condescending while leaving little room for the average person. Once the issue is gone, the arrogant, clueless and condescending must move on and forget the actual reality: A failed meme.

but the fact is he actually required a FISA sign off to do this. At some point the Obamabots are going to wise up: The Nazis were a Left wing Socialist organization who hated non-State capitalists, gun rights, smoking, Christians and anyone not like them.