Breast milk, the miracle cure for child malnutrition and global poverty? Nicholas B. Kristof, The New York Times, The Breast Milk Cure That’s what New York Times foreign affairs columnist (i.e. not a trained science writer) proposed in his latest compassionate yet flawed, okay, botched attempt at public health advocacy – …
If you’ve ever wondered why the experts can’t get it right, head over to a good read at Newsweek – Why Almost Everything You Hear about Medicine Is Wrong. Basically a quick reminder of how studies get misinterpreted, the results flawed and/or exaggerated, the problem of the preponderance of positive or freak findings …
The esteemed British Medical Journal took up the strange and sordid case of Andrew Wakefield, the discredited autism quack whose 1998 study launched the vaccine-autism debacle. Read the piece if you can stomach it. Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent The BMJ editorial accuses the former doc of fraud – …