Get the government the hell out of the people's personal business ... and back into monitoring the people's urine where it belongs! Oh, and if you're embattled Florida governor Rick Scott, it's even better when your wife's company does the drug testing and rakes in the sweet taxpayer dollars:
Given Solantic?s role in that marketplace, critics are again asking whether Scott?s policy initiatives -- this time, requiring drug testing of state employees and welfare recipients -- are designed to benefit Scott?s bottom line. The Palm Beach Post reported in an exclusive story two weeks ago that while Scott divested his interest in Solantic in January, the controlling shares went to a trust in his wife?s name.Aside from how much that sleazy set up smells of corruption and stands in open conflict with the principles of small government conservatives claim to cherish, the odds of a false positive result from a urine test can be around 1% to 2%. Maybe a statistician could weigh in on the odds of a false positive showing up after being subjected to such tests year after year, but it's clear at a glance the risk increases every time the State orders you to pee in a cup.
- A contact at Scientific American hints to me the venerated magazine has been quietly shopping around for new media science writers to provide content on a new SciAm blogging site. Hopefully, we'll know more soon.
- There's terra-dollars worth of resources floating around in the solar system, free for the taking. And astronomers are methodically examining hundreds that make close passes to earth to determine which ones we might visit, or exploit, first. Speaking of resources, Messenger has begun beaming back messages from Mercury, the future heavy metal Motor City of the Solar System.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/s7TPvd9s00A/-This-week-in-science
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