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WAIT A SECOND It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, the time being 1972, a time before computers ran the world. That’s when it was decided that a way must be invented to keep precision atomic … Continue reading
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WHEW! The Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) subsidies to help people buy health insurance got saved by the US Supreme Court after all, with the somewhat unexpected help (unexpected by me, anyway) of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here’s … Continue reading
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Posted by in ACA, affordable care act, ancient DNA, Asia, contraception, dna, Evolution, genetic engineering, genetics, Genome, Genomics, health care, Human Evolution, human origins, human paleontology, Kennewick Man, media criticism, medical journalism, medical writing, mitochondrial DNA, Native American, Obamacare, On Science Blogs, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Research, Science Journalism, Science Writing, united states, women
Eat chocolate! Lose weight! Lie to everybody! The first response to journalist John Bohannon’s latest sting operation against schlock science journals and schlock science journalists–publishing a paper claiming that a chocolate bar a day helps people lose weight–was a savory … Continue reading
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[Update added comments from Retraction Watch’s Adam Marcus and comment on Tara Haelle’s post at the health journalism blog Covering Health.] There’s an interesting meta-question growing out of the flap over that Science paper that’s just been retracted. I speak, … Continue reading
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Posted by in fraud, gay marriage, gays, homosexuality, lesbians, media criticism, medical journalism, medical writing, On Science Blogs, political science, Politics, Research, same-sex marriage, science blogging, Science Journalism, Science Writing, scientific journals, scientific misconduct, social science, united states, women
The great plague is coming The lede on Joel Shurkin’s three-part post on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias at Inside Science is stark and discouraging: “The great plague is coming. After 100 years of research and billions of dollars spent … Continue reading
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Posted by in aging, Alzheimer's disease, brain, dementia, health care, media criticism, medical journalism, Science Journalism
Do 12-step programs for addiction treatment work? Are 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous effective treatments for addiction? That long-time dispute has just popped up again, prompted mostly by an Atlantic article with the click-worthy title “The Irrationality … Continue reading
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A moratorium shuts down research on flu, MERS, and SARS viruses The debate began quickly over the moratorium that the White House has declared on certain sorts of virus research, the sort where researchers are deliberately trying to make … Continue reading
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Posted by in Epigenetics, Evolution, flu, Genome, Genomics, influenza, media criticism, mers, microbes, On Science Blogs, Politics, psychology, Research, SARS, Science Journalism, united states, virus
New animal, perhaps from before the Cambrian Explosion They look sort of like mushrooms, but they are animals. All hail discovery of not just a new species, but possibly a new phylum. Possibly even an animal remnant, thought to be … Continue reading
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Those dueling diets
This week we have a replay of the dueling diets thing, low carb vs. low fat. Low carb continues to appear to have a very slight edge, with many caveats. The sane advice continues to be …
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Once more, screening for prostate cancer
It’s pretty much conventional wisdom among the experts that routine prostate cancer screening for the prostate-specific antigen can cause more harm than good. The recent results of the European study of routine PSA screening …
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Posted by in Bora Zivkovic, Genetic Literacy Project, Genome, Genomics, health care, human microbiome, Knight Science Journalism Tracker, media criticism, medical journalism, microbes, microbiome, obesity, On Science Blogs, prostate cancer, PSA screening, Research, science blogging, Science Journalism, screening