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The Dish: Sampling the Blogs
A quick look at some of the policy-related posts in the science and technology blogosphere:
SEED’s Science and Society blog has posted video of its Science and Society Series with Drew Endy and Annie-Marie Mazaa of the Committee on Science, Technology and Law at the National Academies. The two discuss synthetic biology: the technology behind it, the current state of research, and the legal and regulatory dilemmas it faces.
Expect only one minute of science and environment coverage in five hours of cable news programming, writes Matthew Nisbet at Framing Science. Taking a hard look at the recently released Pew “State of the Media” report, he explores the lack of science coverage on cable news networks.
How to combat the rise of drug-resistant antibiotics? In the wake of a new study indicating that U.S. citizens often fail to complete prescribed courses of antibiotics or use them to treat the wrong kind of infection, 60 Second Science suggests “education, education, education.”
Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline critiques a proposal from MIT professors Stan Finkelstein and Peter Temin for rethinking the drug development process. In their new book, “Resonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis,” they suggest breaking up the pharmaceutical business into drug discovery firms and drug marketing firms.
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