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Jenny McCarthy counts for something
added on 05 Apr 2009
Regular readers know I am no fan of Jenny McCarthy. I have called her a public health risk here before, and I stand by that: her claim that vaccines cause (or contribute to) autism is nothing short of breathtakingly ridiculous. And I’m not the only one who knows this to be true. Medical doct...
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Book Review: Triumph Of The Heart, The Story Of Statins
added on 04 Apr 2009
Triumph of the Heart, as its name does not suggest, is about science. The book’s author, Jie Jack Li, is a medicinal chemist who meticulously reviews the history relevant to the discovery of lipid-lowering drugs. He spares no details, even recounting the amusing quarrels and quirks of the scienti...
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Sisyphean Quest to Reform OTA Continues
added on 04 Apr 2009
It what appears to have nothing to do with the Harold Varmus appearance I mentioned earlier this week, and seems coincidental with this essay by Gerald Epstein, there appears to be another push to re-establish the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The OTA was an office within Congress that ...
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Compare and Contrast
added on 04 Apr 2009
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETONMIDSUMMER EXAMINATIONS 2109THREE HOURSAnswer ONE question, at least ONE question from each section.Use a separate answer book for each question.SECTION A:Question 1:Compare and contrast Crotty's "Magical Thinking" response to open content with Ellis' attitudes to "(Selling)...
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Giving drugs to humans, the whys and wherefores
added on 04 Apr 2009
Late last week, the esteemed Drugmonkey pointed me toward an article that came out in the Washington Post. The Drug Czar of the Bush administration expressed shock and outrage when he suddenly found out that drug researchers give addictive drugs to human addicts as part of studies on human addic...
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