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For Real Change, Defund the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Now here’s change we can believe in. Save the government a couple hundred million dollars a year by eliminating the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Biomedical research funding is falling because of the nation’s budget problems, but biomedical … Continue reading
Did Andrew Wakefield Fake Data in His MMR/Autism Study?
Times UK writer Brian Deer recently charged that Andrew Wakefield — coauthor of a 1998 study published in The Lancet that set off the firestorm over whether or not the MMR vaccine contributed to autism — faked the data used … Continue reading
Time Magazine on Nut Allergy Hysteria
Time Magazine has an interesting article about Harvard’s Harvard professor Dr. Nicholas Christakis who argues that concern over nut allergies is often far disproportionate to the risk. Christakis wrote an article for the British Medical Journal arguing that reaction to … Continue reading
What’s The Harm?
WhatsTheHarm.net attempts to answer the question” what’s the harm?” with pseudoscientific beliefs.
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AntiPolygraph.Org
AntiPolygraph.Org is an excellent site devoted to just one topic — documenting just how unscientific and unreliable polygraph machines and techniques are. Along with reports and documents about the polygraph, the site tracks news stories and incidents where polygraphs fail. … Continue reading
Shark Attack Hysteria Is Business as Usual for Media
The other day I was watching NBC News which lead off its program with a segment on the latest victims of shark attacks off the coast of the United States. What was odd about this particular news program was that … Continue reading
Do Cell Phones Increase the Risk of Brain Tumors?
Does using cellular telephones increase the risk of brain tumors? The short answers it that based on the evidence so far, any increased risk seems so small that it can’t be accurately measured. Swedish researcher Lennart Hardell made news recently, … Continue reading
Do Bicycle Seats Cause Impotence?
The Washington Post’s Roy Furchgott recently wrote an excellent article looking back at claims a few years ago that bicycle seats impeded the flow of blood to the penis causing impotence in male riders. Although bicycle seats designed to prevent … Continue reading
New Study Confirms Safety of MMR Vaccine, While Mumps Cases Explode in Great Britain
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published yet another study confirming that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is almost certainly not a cause of autism and neurological problems in vaccinated children. One theory of how the disease … Continue reading
Hypnotism Doesn’t Create More Accurate Memories
The Daily Telegraph (London) had an interesting summary of an Ohio State University study of using hypnosis to recover memories . The results confirm a lot of skeptical suspicions about the practice — the memories of people who underwent hypnosis … Continue reading