Finally before I go off to get bathed in the glow/spittle of Steve Balmer this a.m, a huge thanks to Eric Novack, Michael Millenson and Maggie Mahar for their just excellent guest posting while I was away. And also thanks to John Irvine for keeping the buses running on time here at THCB.

I note that the NY Times today does not agree with Maggie about the HPV vaccine Gardasil. But on reading it last night I thought that Maggie’s piece and the very intelligent comments were some of the best uses of blogging that I’ve seen anywhere.