This week's On Science Blogs by Tabitha M. Powledge begins with a wrap-up of blogs addressing the current meningitis epidemic, including the news that many medications given in hospitals are the product of compounding pharmacies, which are only lightly regulated by the FDA.
And she notes a dark, conspiratorial link between meningitis and heaven that even the most astute commentators have missed. Last week's Newsweek cover story arguing that heaven is real was written by a neurosurgeon who saw heaven when in a coma induced by meninigitis! The meaning of this astounding coincidence is: nothing. But the scoop still goes to Powledge.
She also notes that the annual convention of science writers is coming up next weekend in Research Triangle Park, N.C., where some 500 practitioners of the trade will have the year's best excuse not to be sweating blood over their computers.
It's also the time each year when we ask, Will the nation and the world survive a long weekend without any science news?
This year, I feel certain, the world will finally decide it cannot do without us.
-Paul Raeburn
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