Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Stuff below the fold

Before you cheer about lowering your medical bills by buying generic drugs, you need to know that Counterfeit medicines are a common (and sometimes lethal problem) here in the third world.
Most are smuggled out of China, so Nigeria bought some medicine from "India" instead.... and alas they were fake too...when India investigated who manufactured the medicine, guess what? They were made in China and falsely labled as coming from India.
Counterfeit drugs are big business...
And people die of infections/malaria because they take medicines that only have a small percentage of the real medicine inside....and sometimes, because fake chemicals that test as real that are substituted are poisonous....

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Catholic college told by the EEOC that their refusal to pay for birth control pills is discriminating against women...
A sign of things to come?
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Paranoia alert: You thought you deleted all those cookies?
Well, says Wired, think again...

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The Earth is humming...

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Journalist hunts for acid-spitting Mongolian death worm

The worm apparently jumps out of the sand and kills people by spitting concentrated acid or shooting lightning from its rectum over long distances, NZPA reports. (Seriously.)

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