Louis Vuitton. Scholarly Publishing. They might want to grab coffee and compare notes. It’s no secret the realm of questionable parenting news and advice keeps growing. It might surprise you to know the realm of questionable scientific findings also keeps growing. For a hefty fee pretty much anyone can get a study published these days. Thanks to the Internet, the “open access” …
Dear Santa,You might be pleased to know the kids still play the drums, some of the Wii discs still work and the bean bag chairs that have yet to explode formed an excellent layer of insulation during the power outage and blizzard following the hurricane. Speaking of Super Storm Sandy please watch your …
As for the American Academy of Pediatric’s shift on male circumcision, their flip flop on the foreskin snip, I just can’t go there today. Only an expert task force could make a policy statement about sex parts sound dry. It’s of such critical societal importance, at least in San Fransisco and possibly Park Slope, it’s free. I …
Bad science is on the rise – at least if you count articles that have been yanked out of academic journals. Seems we’re witnessing a storm of bad science in the form of retracted articles. Like the infamous Wakefied study linking vaccines to autism, the one that got booted out of the …
I have no idea why this slurpy is sideways! What happens to crappy studies? Unless they ignite international brouhahas (e.g.. thousands of parents choosing not to vaccinate), not much according to an op-ed in the New York Times. It’s Science, But Not Necessarily Right. (Title in paper: Why Science Struggles To Correct …