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Archive for January, 2009

Pinker on Personal Genomics

Posted: Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 @ 1:51 pm in genomic, medical, policy, web | 0 Comments

As some folks know, I’ve spent the majority of my time over the last 1.5 year as a member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Informatics group, thinking about security and privacy of web platforms for managing personal health data, including genomic data. I’ve had trouble blogging about it, because I’m still [...]

On Bad-Faith Mocking of Academic Research

Posted: Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 @ 2:59 pm in crypto, voting | 0 Comments

“This is a matter of how we prioritize the money that we spend [...] Where does a lot of that money end up, anyways? [...] Sometimes these dollars, they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France.”
Sarah Palin, US Vice-Presidential Candidate, October [...]