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In the last century, more than 100 million people have perished in violent conflict, very often because of local clashes between ethnically or culturally distinct groups. In a novel study this week in Science, researchers report on a mathematical model that can predict where ethnic conflict will erupt. [...][click link for full article]

No one says marriage is easy — but an international group of 16 natural scientists and social scientists, including three from Michigan State University, are saying the wedding of natural sciences and social sciences is called for. [...][click link for full article]

The National Federation of Independent Business — which recently announced support for the Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act (S 242 and HR 380), legislation that would allow prescription drug reimportation from certain nations — is “being sold a false bill of goods,” Peter Pitts, p [...][click link for full article]

Timing is everything when treating viral infectionsA new study by Robert Mittler and colleagues from Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, has indicated that the timing of treatment with an immune-modifying drug, relative to when a mouse becomes infected with a virus, is crucial in determining whether the treatment is effective or not. [...][click link [...]

Filmmaker Michael Moore in his health care documentary “Sicko” “claims that because private insurance companies are driven by profit, they will always deny care to deserving patients,” but he “is so busy following the money that he doesn’t take the time to follow the science,” John Stossel, co-anchor of ABC’s “20/20,” writes in a Wall [...]