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March 3, 2011
Aardvarchaeology
Skiing Holiday, Broken Bone As my friend David the physiotherapist commented, if you must break a bone, break your radius.
Respectful Insolence
Another pointless anti-vaccine "protest" Why do these things always have to happen when I'm out of town? As you might be aware, the anti-vaccine movement is very, veyr unhappy with the recent Supreme Court ruling in the case of Bruesewitz vs. Wyeth. Basically, the...
erv
InCROIable conference coverage! Its like ComicCon for retrovirologists :-D
Respectful Insolence
On teaching the controversy in medicine The other day, I wrote to express my disappointment with Dr. Kevin Pho, of KevinMD, for posting credulous crap about alternative medicine. I noted in an addendum that he responded with a comment that in essence said that he posts...
March 2, 2011
The Pump Handle
Worth Reading: Poison Squads, Oil Refineries, and Insurance Gaps A few recent pieces worth a look.
erv
BioRay: Whittemore Peterson Institutes BFF is a woo-factory Judge an organization by the company they keep...
erv
Question for the hivemind: Allergy meds OOOOOOOOOOOKLAHOMA where the wind comes sweeping down the plaaaains... with lots of ceder tree pollennnnn!
March 1, 2011
The Pump Handle
In Praise of Cohort Studies Studies that follow groups of participants from birth through the rest of their lives yield important findings about health - and it's up to the government to fund them.
Respectful Insolence
Say it ain't so, Dr. Pho! Credulity towards alternative medicine on KevinMD Say it ain't so, Dr. Pho! Back when I first started blogging over six years ago, one of the first medical blogs I came across was KevinMD, the weblog of one Dr. Kevin Pho. Back then, of course, Dr. Pho's...
February 28, 2011
We Beasties
The good, the bad, and the opportunistic I started writing a lengthy response to a reader comment on one of Heather's posts, but decided it could use a post of it's own. The question: As to being pathogenic, is it possible that many bacteria are pathogenic if...
The Pump Handle
BIG company, but small OSHA penalties for workplace fatalities Civil penalties for violating worker health and safety regulations, including those that led to a worker's death on the job are inconsequential. The maximum penalty for a serious violation is only $7,000, and that amount was last updated by Congress in 1990. OSHA is supposed to consider the size of the business, history, etc. when proposing a penalty. Until the penalties are modernized by Congress, OSHA should drastically scale back these discounts.
Respectful Insolence
Immunize! ...yo!
Respectful Insolence
Naturopathy versus science Naturopathy has been a recurrent topic on this blog. The reasons should be obvious. Although homeopathy is the one woo to rule them all in the U.K. and much of Europe, here in the U.S. homeopathy is not nearly as...
February 27, 2011
erv
*slowclap* Woman brings measles home from London "OH HAI! I HAVENT BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES! SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A FUN IDEA TO TRAVEL TO LONDON, A PLACE WHERE MEASLES IS ENDEMIC, AND THEN EXPOSE LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE IN US AIRPORTS AND AIRPLANES TO MEASLES! YAY ME!!"
February 25, 2011
erv
XMRV = Lab contaminant. Its done.
The Pump Handle
Occupational Health News Roundup OSHA releases a timeline of important events during the agency's first 40 years; a woman journalist speaks out about being sexually assaulted while on assignment; and Apple reports that workers at a contractor's facility were injured by the chemical n-hexane.
Respectful Insolence
Mike Adams discovers the placebo effect. Hilarity ensues. It's Friday. That means I'm in the mood for something more amusing. In the past, I used to use Fridays to have some fun with some particularly outrageous bit of woo, such as quantum homeopathy or DNA activation. Lately, I...
Pharyngula
No Catholic hospitals for me, please There have been some recent controversies in how Catholic hospitals handle ethics — most prominently in the case of the Phoenix hospital that carried out an abortion to save a woman, and got rebuked by the church for it. The...
February 24, 2011
erv
Immunology and... obesity? Here at ERV, Ive talked about all kinds of pathogens and all kinds of vaccination strategies against those pathogens and cancers how our immune systems respond to these pathogens and vaccines and cancers and blah blah blah. When you think...
The Thoughtful Animal
PsychBytes: First Names, Vegetables, and Baseball PsychBytes is an experiment: three recent findings in psychology, each explained in three paragraphs or less.
Aetiology
Methicillin-resistant Staph in animals: the conference It's been a busy few months. I'll have some additional announcements (and long-overdue book reviews) coming up soon, but in the meantime, one of my projects is humming along and is to the point where I can provide some detailed...
Respectful Insolence
An anti-vaccine protest in New York today Blame Comcast, I say. Blame Comcast for the fact that I don't have a typical pearl of Orac-ian logorrheic majesty for your edification this morning. And there's so much that requires such a pearl to be thrown at it, too,...
February 23, 2011
We Beasties
The best offense is a good defensin If you were going to design the perfect immune system, what would you do? This question is often posed to beginning immunology students, and the best answer may be so obvious that it doesn't occur to most. The best immune...
DrugMonkey
R.I.P. Charles Robert Schuster, Ph.D. sourceAn towering figure of the substance abuse research fields has passed away. According to a note posted to an ASPET mailing list, Charles Robert Schuster, Ph.D. suffered a fatal stroke on Feb 21 in Houston Texas. NIDA Director Nora Volkow...
Respectful Insolence
The Supreme Court rules on Bruesewitz v. Wyeth and vaccine injury cases Hard as it is to believe, it's been nearly a year since I first learned that the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case regarding the legitimacy of the vaccine court. The long version can be found here, but the...
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