…it’ll be because the flu vaccine poisoned me, of course! That’s right. Today I got my flu shot, complete with thimerosal and formaldehyde! I do put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. No word on whether there was any of the dreaded Polysorbate 80 in the vaccine, though. Oh, well. Maybe next […]
For women undergoing menopause, hot flashes are a real problem. In my specialty, as I’ve pointed out before, women undergoing treatment for breast cancer are often forced into premature menopause by the treatments to which we subject them. It can be chemotherapy, although far more often it’s the estrogen-blocking drugs that we use to treat […]
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The countdown to 100 continues…
…with the 97th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, which is due to be hosted at Evolved and Rational on Thursday, October 9. That’s less than three days away, folks. There’s still a couple of days left to get your skeptical entries submitted to Evolved Rationalist. So, if you’ve procrastinated thus far, remember that time’s running […]
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Sometimes I have to look for blog ideas, trolling through various alternative medicine sites, medical news sites, or science news feeds or my medical and science journals. Sometimes ideas fall on me seemingly out of the blue. This is one of the latter situations. This time around, as I do twice a month I was […]
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As you may remember, the evening after the Hollywood face of the antivaccine P.R. machine Jenny McCarthy was scheduled to take part in a web chat. At the time, I suggested sending questions in to the Oprah website, to see if any would get through. I’m sure there was some serious screening and vetting of […]
