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		<title>Kitchen Chemistry</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/07/29/kitchen-chemistry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my summer internships at General Foods, I worked with many industrial processing techniques and chemicals that I later dismissed as having no practical value for a home cook working on a much smaller scale. I was proven wrong years later when the collection of techniques lumped together under the name &#8220;molecular gastronomy&#8221; became standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocking!</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/07/20/shocking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because She Who Must Be Obeyed and I donate to the Boston Museum of Science, we frequently get invited to exhibit previews and special events. Last Saturday we took a behind the scenes tour of the Theater of Electricity, the wing of the museum that contains the giant Van de Graaf generator, pictured above. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Downfall of Vaccine Denial</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/30/the-downfall-of-vaccine-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought the vaccine denial movement was immune to the Downfall video meme, you&#8217;re in for a surprise. As you can see here, der Führer had a rough time of it after learning about a Danish study demonstrating no causal link between vaccines and autism. It&#8217;s worth it to hear him scream: It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Scientifically Unsupportable&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/16/scientifically-unsupportable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, special masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims released their findings on the second phase of the Omnibus Autism Proceedings, and found no evidence of a causal link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. (The first phase, decided last year, addressed the claim that the MMR vaccine caused autism. ) Test cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the Maws of Doom</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/09/feeding-the-maws-of-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been three months since I set up my iTerrarium. I must be doing something right, because the Nepenthes alata has developed two fully-formed pitchers (front and rear in the photo), with a third (to the right) on the way. I was advised by Paul Riddell, the iTerrarium&#8217;s creator and curator of the Texas Triffid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try Reason, Not &#8220;Everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/05/try-reason-not-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/05/try-reason-not-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Time magazine published &#8220;The Autism Debate: Who&#8217;s Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?&#8221; As much as I&#8217;d like to rant about her, as I&#8217;ve done before, instead I&#8217;ll call your attention to this paragraph, buried halfway into the article: There are dark murmurings from scientists and doctors asking, Was her son ever really autistic? Evan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punching Your Ticket</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/03/04/punching-your-ticket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the dark ages of computer programming, mainframes like the IBM System 360 relied on keypunch cards for both program and data input. Programs consisted of huge stacks of cards arranged in a specific sequence, which, if spilled, lent a new meaning to the phrase &#8220;system crash.&#8221; My father&#8217;s entry into the world of mainframe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printing Some Dinner</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/23/printing-some-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that 3-D printers will find applications in the kitchen, especially as they become cheaper and more ubiquitous. The geniuses at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have already unveiled the CandyFab 4000, a device that prints forms with sugar instead of the usual plastic resins. Chef Homaro Cantu of Moto restaurant in Chicago has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Fergus Henderson</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/09/being-fergus-henderson/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/09/being-fergus-henderson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;ve written before about chef Fergus Henderson, who has become one of my culinary inspirations. I learned a while ago that the onset and progression of his Parkinson&#8217;s disease required him to stop cooking in his own restaurant, taking on the role of conceiving new recipes for his talented staff to execute. Two recent tweets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irresponsible and Dishonest</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/02/irresponsible-and-dishonest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/02/irresponsible-and-dishonest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.belm.com/?p=3361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s falsification of data linking vaccines and autism, calling his behavior &#8220;irresponsible and criminal.&#8221; Last week the General Medical Council, the British medical licensing body, arrived at the same conclusion: In reaching its decision, the Panel notes that the project reported in the Lancet paper was [...]]]></description>
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