{"id":160,"date":"2004-03-29T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=160"},"modified":"2005-12-30T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:25:33","slug":"is-there-a-gene-for-perenially-losing-the-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/is-there-a-gene-for-perenially-losing-the-big-one","title":{"rendered":"Is there a gene for perenially losing The Big One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Haseltine has retired from Human Genome Sciences, and Chris Byron in the NYPost takes the opportunity to tear him a new hole.<\/p>\n<p>I only mention this because, last fall, I sneaked out of a speech by Haseltine at a translational genomics event I was attending in Phoenix, AZ. Why did I sneak out? Because the Yankees had tied up game 7 against the Red Sox in the AL Championship Series, and were on their way to handing Boston its most soul-crushing defeat ever! There was no <em>way <\/em>I was going to miss that!<\/p>\n<p>So I sneaked out on Haseltine&#8217;s hagiography and watched Mo Rivera mow down the Sox until Aaron Boone got up and hit a home run in the bottom of the 11th for aforementioned soul-crushing defeat. Did I mention that the Yankees season starts tomorrow (in Japan at 5am e.s.t.)? Go, Yankees! Down with Haseltine! I mean, down with Red Sox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Haseltine has retired from Human Genome Sciences, and Chris Byron in the NYPost takes the opportunity to tear him a new hole. I only mention this because, last fall, I sneaked out of a speech by Haseltine at a translational genomics event I was attending in Phoenix, AZ. Why did I sneak out? Because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/is-there-a-gene-for-perenially-losing-the-big-one\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is there a gene for perenially losing The Big One?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/holy-shit","url_meta":{"origin":160,"position":0},"title":"Holy Shit","author":"Gil","date":"October 18, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm on the road at present, touring pharma and genomics facilities in Phoenix (Wed.-Fri.) and visiting my best friend and his True Love in San Diego (Fri.-Sun.). 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