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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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Wired Left Out A Few Details in “Oppressed Scientist” Story
Its a bit over a year old now, but I happened to run across this Wired story from December 2003 with a familiar them — evil corporations are trying to punish the heroic researchers who expose the inherent problems with … Continue reading
Just How Accurate Are Third World HIV Estimates?
In January, Kenya announced that its HIV rate had fell almost in half overnight. But this was not due to any new program adopted by Kenya. Rather the government released a more accurate estimate that only 6.7 percent of people … Continue reading
Man’s Conviction Overturned After FBI Agent’s False Testimony Revealed
In 1992 Anthony Bragdon was convicted of assault with intent to rape and sentenced to 30 years in jail. Bragdon’s conviction was recently reversed by a Washington D.C. Superior Court that found an FBI expert on fiber and hair evidence … Continue reading
Are the Odds of an Apocalypse 50/50?
Proving that it’s not just nutcase religious types who are wont to give firm predictions about the end of the world, British astronomer Martin Rees received a lot of credulous news coverage for his claim that human species only has … Continue reading
Ronald Bailey on Depleted Uranium
Ronald Bailey wrote an interesting survey back in March of research on depleted uranium. As Bailey notes, studies from a wide variety of sources fail to find any negative health consequences from depleted uranium despite the anti-DU rhetoric from environmentalists … Continue reading
Cancer Researcher Resigns Amid Fraud Allegations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Steven Leadon resigned from his position in June amid allegations that he “fabricated and falsified findings.” Leadon was a professor of radiation oncology and headed up Chapel Hill’s molecular radiobiology program. In … Continue reading