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Announcements Medicine

Pediatric Grand Rounds

Pediatric Grand Rounds is now up over at the abode of one of my favorite medbloggers, Flea. This time around, Flea has chosen a rather–shall we say?–unusual theme around which to organize the festivities.

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Politics Science

Fear of the frame

After all the chatter that’s been going on throughout ScienceBlogs about Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney‘s editorial, Framing Science, published in Science on Friday, I almost thought that there was nothing really left for me to say. Of course, regular readers of this blog know that there’s rarely an issue that’s been so thoroughly picked […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

More heavy metals in dietary supplements

Via Terra Sigilatta (who beat me to this one, as I saw the press release yesterday but never got around to blogging about it), we find yet another case of heavy metal contamination of a popular supplement, this time herbal kelp supplements. This discovery was prompted by the investigation of a case of woman who […]

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EneMan Humor Medicine Religion

I hope this doesn’t go to his head (for obvious reasons)

I don’t recall how I came across this. Perhaps it was while looking for photos of our intrepid mascot that I don’t already have, or perhaps it was to see if anyone else has anything to say about our cheery but strange mascot, the purpose of whose head you really don’t want to think too […]

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

Never fear, The Skeptics’ Circle is almost here!

Time flies once again, and, seemingly so soon after the last successful Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, the next one is fast approaching. This time around, it’s going to be hosted at Geek Counterpoint. So get your entries to Lorne by Wednesday, and then join us for yet another entertaining edition of every skeptic’s favorite […]