Magic is for shows, not for medicine | Photo: Bruno Ronner, CC BY-SA 2.0 In which a medical doctor exhibiting a love for magical thinking bothers me greatly. *** I’ve always been a little uncomfortable […]
Holding baby’s hands forever? | Photo: fruity monkey, CC BY 2.0 A new post over at Retraction Watch has followed hard on the heels of a New York Times article about something called the “Ashley […]
You might’ve heard this past week about a little kerfuffle at the Tribeca Film Festival. The headlines may have mentioned any or all of the following: disgraced ex-MD Andrew Wakefield, the anti-vaccine “movement,” the festival’s […]
Look, let’s get a few things straight about putting things up your bum. Doing so is only medically useful in a very limited number of cases. If you’re extremely constipated and for some reason oral laxatives […]
News from Ceres, a Cygnus launch and docking, and fresh new synthetic life. Read on! *** Cygnus and Saffire On Tuesday another unmanned Orbital ATK “Cygnus” ISS resupply mission launched successfully aboard an Atlas V rocket. […]
Including some excellent tips on how to know when you’ve already lost the moral high ground. Photo: Mike Licht, CC BY 2.0 *** Let me start this post by saying that I have legitimately no […]
Rice: regular, and golden | Photo: International Rice Research Association, CC BY 2.0 This is an expansion of a miniature facebook rant I went off on this morning, so feel free to read on or […]
Still not a thing, guys | Photo: EMF Camp 2014 (which is a thing, and a cool one at that), CC BY-SA 2.0 In which Retraction Watch demonstrates a heroic level of restraint. *** I love […]
Milk | Photo: fdecomite, CC BY 2.0 A friendly reminder that raw milk confers no health benefits and a host of health risks, even if your provider is “careful.” *** Consuming raw milk isn’t a […]
CONtrails | Photo: fdecomite, CC BY 2.0 Say it with me, folks: CONDENSATION trails. CON trails. Not CHEMtrails. *** So in my trawling the net for the craziest things I can find, I came across […]