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The Right to a Trial?

The fight over an experimental cancer therapy gets ugly. The FDA's decision to delay approval of Provenge, an experimental therapy for advanced prostate cancer, has incensed patients and advocacy groups, who have launched a sophisticated lobbying effort calling for the drug's approval and questioning the motives of critics. Of course, investors in Dendreon, the creators of Provenge, have a strong financial interest in seeing Provenge approved. The New Yorker covers the complicated issues surrounding patient access to experimental therapies in this story.
posted to MetaFilter by myeviltwin at 7:48 AM on July 6, 2007 (28 comments)

I don't buy it

This has to be fake.
posted to MetaTalk by myeviltwin at 8:49 AM on June 4, 2007 (70 comments)

i'm in ur mac, indexing ur filez

Google Desktop for Mac OS X finally saw beta release last week; so far, the beta includes search but not Gadgets. Initial reactions have been tepid amid concern about how extensively the installer modifies your system. Nonetheless, some people seem to like it.
posted to MetaFilter by myeviltwin at 12:05 PM on April 9, 2007 (65 comments)

A gentleman always calls girls sluts on the Internet.

Am I wrong to thing that this is way out of line?
posted to MetaTalk by myeviltwin at 9:25 AM on April 7, 2007 (288 comments)

Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!

Unschooling is an educational philosophy which abandons tests, curricula, and textbooks in favor of self-directed learning. Practiced by an enthusiastic community of homeschoolers, unschooling has recently attracted some media attention (MSNBC, NYT). Of course, unschooling raises some concerns: "If they are not made to do arbitrary and tedious schoolwork, children might not learn how to do difficult, uninteresting, and unpleasant work."
posted to MetaFilter by myeviltwin at 1:13 PM on November 25, 2006 (150 comments)

I bond to IRA?

Is there a way to roll over U.S. government bonds into an IRA tax-free?
posted to Ask Metafilter by myeviltwin at 6:21 AM on November 2, 2006 (3 comments)

Help me switch.

Which Firefox extensions should I install?
posted to Ask Metafilter by myeviltwin at 9:28 AM on October 24, 2006 (43 comments)

ListFilter

Music nerds love nothing better than lists, and the end of the year is an excellent excuse to make one. Here are Rolling Stone's, Pitchfork's, and Boomkat's lists of the best albums of 2004. What albums did you enjoy in 2004?
posted to MetaFilter by myeviltwin at 1:31 PM on January 1, 2005 (120 comments)

Scared?

Terror warnings boost Bush's approval ratings. Cornell sociologist Robb Willard has used a time-series regression analysis to show that a terror alert by the US government predicts an increase in Bush's approval ratings, even on topics unrelated to security. It's often been claimed that the Bush administration manipulates terror alerts for political gain — does this finding make those claims more plausible?
posted to MetaFilter by myeviltwin at 10:19 PM on October 7, 2004 (9 comments)