Archive for the ‘ Science ’ Category
Dr. Phil Plait has long been a voice of reason in the whole anti-vaccination stink. The retraction of the paper from the Lancet led to a brilliant post; a portion you can read below. The Lancet statement is a bit bloodless… but they are a professional research journal and not a blog, so it’s not appropriate for them [ READ MORE ]
Dr. Andrew Wakefield is a physician best known for his work on autism. In 1998 he published a study in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal, which reported on twelve children with autism spectrum disorders and bowel complications and linked them to the MMR vaccine. Enter one of the biggest controversies in medical practice in decades. While [ READ MORE ]
If we evolved from apes, why were there still apes? This ranks up there with the "it's only a theory" argument: pointless, baseless, and shows that the person spouting the question is completely ignorant of what they're attempting to debunk. [ READ MORE ]
"The Accuracy of Stated Energy Contents of Reduced-Energy, Commercially Prepared Foods" is the title of a paper posted in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and is the nerdy science speak way of saying "the shit on the label isn't so." The paper (link below) has discovered that the calorie count on labeled food and, more specifically, [ READ MORE ]