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• 10 November 09 (noonish)

  
  blueollie — Authority: 138
  Personal note: I am feeling weird; just “off”. My digestion is out of whack, I have some thigh aches (due to the stepper?) and am just “off” and tired. I am recording this so I can see if this leads to sickness or not. I am not feeling horrible; my workout this morning was slightly sub par but within ...
  18 hours ago

• Prudent People Plan for Personal Safety: The Novel H1N1 Version -- Get Vaccinated

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 118
  John Solomon keeps the blog In Case of Emergency, Read Blog (which I recommend to you if you are interested in emergency preparedness...which everyone should be).He reported on a FEMA regional meeting. One of the takeaway messages: “Preparedness is really about personal safety: People cannot relate to the term ...
  1 day ago

• Carl Sagan Day

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 118
  I did not know that we shared a birthday . (Ooops, we dont.  His is today, November 9.  Reminder to self -- check facts.) From http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Carl_Sagan/ In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a ...
  2 days ago

• Caught By FDA: Supplement Manufacturers Boost Efficacy By Adding Real Drugs To Mix

  
  Better Health — Authority: 600
  I should probably create a new blogpost category just for erectile dysfunction dietary supplements adulterated with authentic or synthetic analogs of prescription phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors (e.g., Viagra, Cialis). However, FDA has already created a page for this earlier this year after dozens of ...
  3 days ago

• Death Before Homeopathys Dishonor - Again!

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 138
  "A homeopathic doctor has been arrested for killing his 55-year-old domestic help as she was allegedly blackmailing him after she saw him with a prostitute, police said Wednesday." -- The Times of India
  4 days ago

• Porker of the Month: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
    Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has named Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) Porker of the Month for loading up her goodie bag just before Halloween as she prepares to leave the Senate to run for governor of Texas.  While claiming to be a fiscal conservative, the four-term senator requested 149 ...
  4 days ago

• Because Bringing Crazy To Kids Is So Important

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 138
  "Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who trained under Sigmund Freud in Vienna. He was known for forging ahead with work for which the world wasn’t quite ready. He was labeled as a quack by the FDA and deemed mentally ill. However, Wilhelm Reich was once connected to the Old Pueblo and this ...
  6 days ago

• Bizarre Science Lesson From A Behavioral Optometrist

  
  Better Health — Authority: 600
  Charlene Werner is getting a lot of attention she probably did not anticipate or desire. She is the star of a YouTube video in which she explains the scientific basis of homeopathy. Before you watch it, make sure you are sitting down, relax, and brace yourself for an onslaught of profound scientific illiteracy ...
  6 days ago

• Like Grape Nuts, "Christian Scientists" are neither

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 700
  This is a terrible idea : The measure would put Christian Science prayer treatments -- which substitute for or supplement medical treatments -- on the same footing as clinical medicine. While not mentioning the church by name, it would prohibit discrimination against "religious and spiritual healthcare." It would ...
  1 week ago

• All That + A Bag Of Fries (A Master Of Disguise)

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 138
  Well, well, well, look whos back ,.... The "Big Pimpin" Serbian mass murderer, NewAge "healer", and quack doctor, Radovan Karadzic. Remember when he looked like this ?
  1 week ago

• Paying For Prayer: Why The LA Times Should Read Medical Blogs

  
  Better Health — Authority: 600
  Today the LA Times described a bizarre and troublesome healthcare reform bill provision that would require Medicare to pay for Christian Science Prayer as a medical treatment: …a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer ...
  1 week ago

• Health Reform Bill to Allow Insurance Payments For Prayer Healings

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 661
  Via Kevin Drum , I have learned that current Senate version of the health reform bill would provide for insurance payments for Christian Science prayer treatments –and probably other “spiritual” treatments as well. Reporting from Washington – Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a ...
  1 week ago

• Shut Up, Dr. Suzanne Somers & the Mainstream Media Who Glorify This Celeb Quack

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 624
  By Debbie SchlusselOne thing I’m really sick of is proud high school graduate celebrities with zero medical experience doling out health and medical advice.  But I’m even more disgusted by the mainstream media who glorify them and give them a forum for their bunk. And that’s not to mention the greedy book ...
  1 week ago

• Amy Wallace On The Anti-Vaccination Movement: Superb, Engaging Science Journalism

  
  Better Health — Authority: 600
  One of the most engaging and clearly-written pieces of science journalism over the last year or so was published in Wired magazine last week. Amy Wallace’s, “An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All,” is part interview with rotavirus vaccine developer, pediatric infectious ...
  1 week ago

• Amy Wallaces Pro-Vaccination, Pro-Science Article in Wired & Reactions to It

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 118
  The short version: Who is Amy Wallace, and whats all the talk about?  She published a pro-science, pro-vaccine article in Wired, and several anti-vaccine heavyweights mounted sexist personal attacks. The very long version follows: Note: Ive found several more reactions, pro and con, and have added them without ...
  1 week ago

• Its The Season Of The Witch

  
  ? The Macho Response ? — Authority: 138
  "He hasnt been sick. Homeopathy has no side effects. . . .We dont hear about dying from homeopathy ." -- Grainne Ostrowski , living in a NewAge world of black darkness and confusion - and making sure, with the help of sloppy journalists, to envelope her child in it - as she stupidly and arrogantly ...
  1 week ago

• Homeopathy is Crap, vol. MMCVIV

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 700
  This video has been making lots of people laugh and/or seccuss their heads against the wall on the science and med blogs this week. Its almost too painful to watch -- the jaw-dropping butchery of physics is only the beginning -- but theres so much great dope in here, you really have to endure at least through ...
  1 week ago

• Part Three: Overcoming Old Money and Extreme Politics That Keep Haskell In Business

  
  Operation Rescue — Authority: 420
  [This is the third and final installment of a three part exposѐ on late term abortionist Martin Haskell’s special “variance” excusing him from complying with Ohio law. Read Part 1; Read Part 2.]Dayton, OH — Martin Haskell’s Women’s Med Center in the Dayton suburb of Kettering, Ohio, continues to operate ...
  1 week ago

• James Graham: Doctor of Love

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 423
  On 26th November, author Lydia Syson will give a talk in the Wellcome Library on James Graham, the controversial eighteenth century healer, widely regarded as the worlds first sex therapist and subject of Lydias recent book, Doctor of Love: James Graham and his Celestial Bed (2008). This is the latest in our strand ...
  1 week ago

• Mainstreaming Science-Based Medicine: A Novel Approach

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 131
  I have often mused about the difference between being right and being influential – especially in light of the relative success of the anti-vaccine movement. Despite the fact that there is no evidence for a link between vaccines and autism, celebrities like Jenny McCarthy have manufactured public mistrust in one ...
  1 week ago

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