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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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The list of lists, continued Happy New Year, and here’s Part 2 of the On Science Blogs List of Lists–the annual end-of-last-year-beginning-of-this-year retrospective on the best of, top ten etc. (For Part 1, the final On Science Blogs post … Continue reading
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Homo erectus, the Jackson Pollock of her/his day? You may be tempted to regard that find of a shell from the Pacific island of Java–supposedly engraved by our ancestor Homo erectus half a million years ago–as a scientific blunder … 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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RIP Knight Science Journalism Tracker, sort of
UPDATE: The comments are piling up on the post announcing the Tracker’s end, 42 as I write, and they are 100% horrified. I have asked Deb Blum and Wade Roush for …
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