It’s Saturday, and what better way to spend it than in front of the computer? Who cares if it’s sunny and in the low 80s, temperature-wise? Why would you care about that when there’s so much great blogging about science, specifically cancer research, at the latest installment of the 12th Edition of the Cancer Research […]
Category: Medicine
For those out there who think it was “beneath” me to have responded to PhysioProf’s rants about doctors and medical students last week, I present to you Steve Novella’s take on the matter. Leave it to Steve to generalize the issue beyond my relatively narrow take on the matter. I also point out that Steve […]
Remember how on Monday I posted a dissection of some truly execrable reporting on vaccines and potential conflicts of interest (COIs) by Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News that aired one week ago today? As you may recall, my main point was that Attkisson’s reporting was lazy, describing nothing that couldn’t be found from public sources, […]
Has it really been a whole year? The longer I blog, the faster time seems to fly. Or maybe it’s just because I’m getting older. Whatever the case, you may (or may not) recall that about a year ago I got into a little tussle with a certain Libertarian comic and some smoking cranks over […]
I’ve been a bit remiss in my duty toward a fellow ScienceBlogger. No doubt a few were wondering (or maybe not), why I, as the resident breast cancer expert here, didn’t point out that my fellow ScienceBlogger Janet live-blogged her very first screening mammogram last week. Truth be told, I had meant to mention it […]
