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Misinformation Common Among Women With Breast Cancer

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Even With Universal Health Care, Mothers Don't Go To Postnatal Check-Ups

For decades, health care costs have been a political topic in America. Advocates argue it is the...

Happy Twelfth Night - Or Divorce Day, Depending On How Your 2026 Is Going

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Blood Pressure Medication Adherence May Not Be Cost, It May Be Annoyance At Defensive Medicine

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It's November 2019 - How Close Did We Get To Blade Runner?

It's November 2019 - How Close Did We Get To Blade Runner?

Nov 01 2019 | comment(s)

It's November of 2019 which means that we have officially arrived at the opening of the science fiction cult classic "Blade Runner." Let's talk about what it got right.

I was at a local theater showing of "Evil Dead: The Musical" a few weeks ago and at the end was a lot of 1980s music. The crowd that evening was overwhelmingly high school theater geeks and they knew every song, from "Come On Eileen" to "Take On Me." They knew them well enough to mash up dances from other periods while they were singing.

War On Fun: Rutgers Shows Us All How To Scaremonger Halloween

War On Fun: Rutgers Shows Us All How To Scaremonger Halloween

Oct 30 2019 | comment(s)

Rutgers University wants kids to be afraid this year. Not of ghosts and goblins, but Halloween itself. So they have published 7 hyperbolic risks designed to terrify parents.

Allergies! Marijuana brownies! Makeup!

Getting advice from a poison control center at Halloween is as demoralizing as ordering a steak with a microbiologist: they know so much about absolute risk they have forgotten what real risk is.
Economists Claim Air Pollution Caused 10,000 More Deaths Due To Trump - It's Political Nonsense

Economists Claim Air Pollution Caused 10,000 More Deaths Due To Trump - It's Political Nonsense

Oct 29 2019 | comment(s)

Wildfires happen multiple times per year here in California, we even make light of it by joking "the mudslides will put out the wildfires" when the seasons turn. 

Given that pollution surges due to fires are well-documented here, it would seem obvious that if pollution was going to cause more deaths, it would be during wildfire season.
Prohibition 100 Years Later: Why The US Is An Outlier On Vaping And What We Can Learn From Alcohol

Prohibition 100 Years Later: Why The US Is An Outlier On Vaping And What We Can Learn From Alcohol

Oct 28 2019 | comment(s)

It's no secret to anyone with even modest command of history that America has long meant freedom. Every oppressed religion moved here, to the one country that did not have a national religion, separating it from the Anglican Church (imagine if the President got to approve the Bishop of Pittsburgh!) or any of the countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
Marijuana As Magic: CBD Search Increases Are Making The Rest Of The Supplement Industry Nervous

Marijuana As Magic: CBD Search Increases Are Making The Rest Of The Supplement Industry Nervous

Oct 23 2019 | comment(s)

Though a CBD supplement huckster was just convicted for selling synthetic marijuana and CBD oil is the culprit behind untold numbers of vaping illnesses and deaths, and a chiropractor was just lambasted by FDA for claiming his CBD supplement can fix everything from autism to Alzheimer's, if search engines are any indication, marijuana is not stopping.
'Truthers' Are The Norm, Which Is Why You Should Stop Reading Scientific American Right Now

'Truthers' Are The Norm, Which Is Why You Should Stop Reading Scientific American Right Now

Oct 23 2019 | comment(s)

Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., of Berkeley is the kind of anti-science "truther" that even most west coast activists steer clear of, because he makes all of the social sciences look bad by association. Worse, he is a "social" psychologist, which for the last 20 years has been beset by fraud and retraction. 

But at Scientific American, which has become the home of activist crazies, he fits right in.