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Saturday September 15, 2007 · 3:13 AM PDT

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Real life cancer researcher Terra Sigillata notes the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reportedly cutting back reimbursements for crucial lifesaving drugs that treat lymphoma. In short, this could ostensibly cause some people to die, people that could otherwise be saved.

And incidentally, Terra Sigillata is manned by two registered democrats who send every penny received from ScienceBlogs to a cancer patient support group. They are paid based on traffic: That means if you visit their blog here, you are putting money directly into the pocket of some very sick people in dire need, without it costing you one dime. So please, click it often and spread the link around.

The theory that rapidly changing climate may have contributed to the demise of European Neandertals comes under fire, thus strengthening the alternative possibility that modern humans played a significant role.

The National Research Council is reporting the federal office which oversees climate change research is underfunded and facing more spending cuts, potentially affecting satellite and ground based data collection, which will further hamper its effectiveness. This even as Bush's science advisor, John Marburger, states that odds are 90 per cent that global warming is man-made, and could make the planet unlivable.

Cassini takes a pass at Saturn's enigmatic moon Iapetus and returns some beautiful images of two worlds in one, while science-fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke looks on.

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