Most Americans still distrust Atheists on principle and would refuse to vote for one.

What fools — it's the religious people that are dangerous.

A publisher of academic journals ordered the editors of a journal not to publish a paper about the high cost of journal subscriptions. The editors unblocked it by going on strike.

This debate addresses a significant problem, but takes a shallow view of it. It focuses on price rather than freedom, and discusses "open access" which is too weak a goal.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been found in squid for sale.

This bacterium is not dangerous to healthy people, but bacteria exchange genes even with different species.

We need to stop feeding antibiotics massively to farm animals, since that is a major cause of resistance.

Economist Friedrich von Hayek accused democracies of doing the nasty things that fascist plutocracies really do. His contrary-to-fact theories have been repeated by generations of Libertarians.

On the other hand, there's a little truth in what he says about how the masses can be led by propaganda — when those who issue the propaganda own most of the media and corrupt the elected officials, which is what those who make use of Hayek do today.

Microsoft is a patent aggressor against free software (in Android).