Another much-hyped study almost certainly will be yanked from the scientific literature. Retracted. Deleted but not forgotten. It was too good to be true, the results appear to be fabricated. This time it’s gay marriage and attitude change. You might remember it. Back in December, we were treated to the remarkable …
I refuse to write about the recent op-ed from the Playboy model-cum television host and parenting expert who learned everything she needs to know at Google University and one suspects Hugh Heffner’s famed grotto. Girlfriend knows how to get media attention even if it means re-branding herself as a vaccine …
Just when you thought an Oreo was just a harmless glucose-delivery device, here’s the latest in addiction news: Oreos addictive: Undergraduate researchers at Connecticut College found that rats respond to Oreo cookies much like they respond to cocaine and morphine. via Christian Scientist Monitor The sub-title tells almost everything you …
Someday I might be able to stop talking about breastfeeding. Possibly not until my grand kids roll their eyes and start lactating. But until then I feel like someone’s gotta make sense of the claims*. Like the rest in the Tossing the Formula article last week that I didn’t get to in my original …
Childhood vaccines now rank as one of the prime examples of botched media coverage and botched thinking. The exaggerated fears, the exaggerated claims, the outright falsities – they’re all getting their fifteen minutes of fame. Vaccines have become the darlings of people who think and write about poor risk perception and related, misinformation in the media, how it gets …