One of the banes of a physician’s existence is not so much keeping up with changes in how medicine is practiced, studying new treatments, and following the medical literature. After all, that comes with the territory; it’s part of the job. Failure to keep up is to become increasingly ineffective and even to risk malpractice […]
Month: May 2007
Our creationist neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Egnor, isn’t going to like this one bit. No doubt he’ll try to call it “artificial selection” or a “tautology” when he finds out about it, if he doesn’t just ignore it because he it doesn’t fit in with his view that studying evolution is “of no value” in medicine. […]
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In honor of Towel Day, the theme of the latest meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle is The Hitchhiking Skeptic’s Guide to the Galaxy. Join Rebecca (a.k.a. The Skepchick) as she takes you on a tour of the skeptical blogosphere. But don’t do it for me. Don’t even do it just for Rebecca. Do it for […]
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A number of readers have mailed me links to this story, and, yes, it is right up my alley. In reading it, I fear that it’s a vision of the future for two young cancer patients who are very unlikely to survive their cancers because their parents eschewed evidence-based medicine in favor of woo, Starchild […]
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Ask yourself this: What do the convicted do, either in prison or when facing prison? They find Jesus, of course: It’s inevitable any time anyone’s going to jail, it seems. My prediction for Paris’ next stop: Kabbalah! It would, however, be even more amusing if she were to convert to Islam while in prison.
