I am sick. Meaning that the end of the world is nigh and the the air around me is filled with expelled virus and the soft moaning and whining of a man with the common cold.
I felt it coming on Wednesday evening and in the interest of being prepared and minimising loss of work time, [...]
Soda and His Million Piece Band "St. James Infirmary Blues" [3:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIt is time for this vaccination/autism nonsense to stop.
Last week, British medical journal “The Lancet” retracted a 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues that initiated that panic over a purported link between MMR vaccines and autism. This followed a censure of Wakefield issued by the UK’s General Medical Council for unethical behavior. The Lancet’s editor says [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was cooking dinner, as I do most nights. We were having some sort of chicken dish and the recipe called for 250g (~1/2 lb) of chicken breast. I wandered over to the refrigerator, pulled out the twin pack of chicken breasts that Dr. O’C had picked up at the [...]
Back in my late teens and early twenties I had a particular fondness for White Crosses, the little bronchodilater pills that one could by legally at gas stations all over the country. They were ephedrine tablets, designed for folks with asthma but used with great gusto by dieters and for recreational purposed. And also by long [...]
I’m over the rebranded Allie’s Answers today, filling my role a as resident science guy. I’m looking at the contentious science surrounding plastic shopping bags today. Head on over and have a look and check out the rest of The Greenists as well.
One of the reasons that the science on this one is a bit [...]
God, I hate the news media sometimes.
A story caught Dr. O’C’s eye in our local Murdoch owned fishwrapper the other day, the juicy lead of which was:
MODERN men have got it so good. According to scientific research, women are gradually becoming more attractive in an evolutionary ‘beauty race’.
Without reading either the article or the ’scientific research’, I issued [...]
As many of you probably know, Merck’s pain killer Vioxx turned out to be a bitter pill. Merck pulled the drug in 2004 because a number of reports regarding an increased risk of stroke and heart attack associated with use of the drug. The company has since accepted a $4.85 billion settlement in the U.S., [...]
My pet theory regarding the demise of the Neanderthals is that they were the victim of our Paleolithic ancestors’ more murderous impulses. I know that this sort of flies in the face of the shiny happy sentiment of my post last week regarding the inherent ‘goodness’ of human nature, but I’m nothing if not idiosyncratic.
This [...]
For those of you keeping track at home, I’ve been about six weeks without a cigarette during this latest quit attempt. Instead of smoking, I’ve developed the cross-addiction of obsessively reading the latest medical research about all the different ways in which smoking will kill you. This gives me a sense of relief that can, [...]
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” -Aaron Levenstein
I am a dedicated carnivore. Vegetables are cute and all and make the plate look real pretty, but I see no need for them beyond decoration. Potatoes are a bit like Styrofoam packing peanuts – they serve as good [...]
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