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Monthly Archives: February 2002
Upcoming Abortion/Breast Cancer Trial in North Carolina
Women’s eNews recently reported about an upcoming trial in Fargo, North Dakota, in which a judge will be asked to weight the claims and counterclaims about whether or not abortion contributes to increased risk of breast cancer. Not only are … Continue reading
Number of Shark Attacks Worldwide Were Down in 2001
Last summer the media was consumed with reports about shark attacks after a young boy was mauled by a shark off the coast of Florida. Recently released statistics prove what many observers suspected all along, however — the number of … Continue reading
Cuba vs. the United States on Infant Mortality
Recently released statistics on the infant mortality rate in the Western hemisphere yielded an odd conclusions — Cuba’s infant mortality rate, 16 6.0 per 1,000, is now lower than the U.S. infant mortality rate, at 7.2 per 1,000. Given Cuba’s … Continue reading
Institute of Medicine Panel Recommends No Changes to U.S. Vaccination Procedures
An independent committee of the Institute of Medicine has released a report finding there is no evidence that the multiple vaccines children receive contributes to illnesses and recommends that the United States maintain its current regimen of vaccinations. The committee … Continue reading
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Is Too Much Sleep Killing You?
One of the more ludicrous examples of a study being used as part of a scare campaign were reports last week of a new study that found sleeping 8 to 10 hours each night increases the risk of dying. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Measles Outbreak in Great Britain
Great Britain is in the middle of a measles outbreak, with 20 confirmed cases of the disease and another 47 children still waiting for laboratory tests to confirm whether or not they have contracted the disease. Great Britain has been … Continue reading
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Five Years Later, Tulane Researcher Sanctioned for Fraud
In 1996 Tulane university researcher Steven Arnold provided what was the first (and to my knowledge the only) study ever to find that combinations of chemicals could together act as endocrine disrupters that were far more powerful than the individual … Continue reading
Environmentalists Who Live in Glass House
In an article for Tech Central Station, Ronald Bailey hit the nail on the head abuot the campaign to discredit Bjorn Lomberg’s book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. I have not read Lomberg’s book and so have no opinion one way or … Continue reading
History Channel Repeats Urban Legend about Dr. Charles Drew
While watching the History Channel’s three-part documentary about D-Day, I was extremely disappointed when they ran a short segment about Dr. Charles Drew for Black History Month that repeated the urban legend that Drew died because he could not receive … Continue reading