UK’s Phased Smoking Ban
(Mi, 17 Apr 2024)
UK MPs have just passed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill by a 383 to 67 vote. If the measure becomes law it will ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009. This is not just
an age limit – this is a permanent phased ban. If the law passes and stands, anyone born after that date will […]
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Epilogue
(Sat, 13 Apr 2024)
I felt remarkably well when I awoke despite the previous night’s beer. I was a little thirsty, and my mouth felt like I brushed my teeth with a toilet brush. I took a long shower and took my time
getting ready for work. I bought a scone and tea on my way to the trolley and picked up a newspaper. For the […]
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SARMs Harms
(Thu, 11 Apr 2024)
Selective androgen receptor (SARMs) are sports supplements marketed to teens via social media influencers.
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The Ethics of Artificial Brains
(Wed, 10 Apr 2024)
We are living in a time of technology advancing so rapidly it is challenging to keep up. This has multiple ramifications, and in the area of biomedical research, there is an important ethical and
regulatory dimension. Confronting the ethical considerations of our own technology is nothing new, and fresh debate seems to erupt with every new development – including in-vitro fertilization,
transplanting […]
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Dr. Vinay Prasad vs. a VAERS study finding more reports of vaccine injury in red states
(Mon, 08 Apr 2024)
Dr. Vinay Prasad attacks an epidemiological study published in JAMA Open Network reporting that people in red states are more likely to report vaccine injuries, claiming that a more rigorous
study would "not be difficult," when he knows that it would be very difficult.
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Every Time Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Talks About COVID, He Proves He Was Totally Wrong About COVID
(Sun, 07 Apr 2024)
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya March 2020: "If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in
cities and states around the country are surely justified."
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What Is Type 3 Diabetes?
(Wed, 03 Apr 2024)
I’m always wary of new medical terms that seem to be used and promoted prematurely, when still in the hypothesis phase. It seems like an obvious way to bias any thinking about an alleged
phenomenon – just label it as the hypothesis, as if it is already a conclusion. Calling symptoms that may follow a lyme infection “chronic lyme disease” implies something […]
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The Truth vs. Alex Jones: How the DSHEA of 1994 gave conspiracy mongers the means to fund their empires
(Mon, 01 Apr 2024)
As the HBO documentary The Truth vs. Alex Jones shows, Alex Jones promoted the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax to sell his supplement line. It's a model that
many Internet conspiracy theorists use, like Mike Adams. Did the DSHEA help create Alex Jones and the modern conspiracy industry?
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 13
(Sat, 30 Mar 2024)
Saturday. Just another workday when the Cholera is flowing. I woke early, at 6 a.m., and went to the office before anyone else. On the way, I went to the grocer’s and bought some supplies. I
started, as usual, in the cubby room, and I was happy to see that as of yesterday that cases of the Cholera were staying down: there were […]
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Sweetened Drinks and Risk of A-Fib
(Wed, 27 Mar 2024)
Yet again the public is being subjected to warnings about the potential health risks of consuming a common food item based upon insufficient evidence. Last month it was oat products, and now it’s
sweetened drinks. The study is a prospective cohort study, which means it is observational. The researchers looked at over 200 thousand participants in the UK biobank. At the start […]
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 12b
(Sat, 23 Mar 2024)
I did not bother going back to the office but decided to wander over the sisters to see if they had anything new from their research. I took a trolley to Southeast and hopped off early. It was a
beautiful summer day, and it would do me good to walk. It was a pretty neighborhood with many trees and well-kept gardens. I […]
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Some Doctors Cared Much More About Sore Arms Than Cold Bodies
(Fri, 22 Mar 2024)
The campaign against boosters was just a small part of a pathetic, pandemic-long pattern where doctors expressed grave concern about the mildest harms of measures to limit COVID, even purely
theoretical ones, while being totally indifferent to literally anything the virus could do, including the deaths of children and young adults.
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Best Hospital Eye Roll
(Tue, 19 Mar 2024)
Science: Figuring things out is better than making things up. A tee shirt I recently saw. Except… In a recent post Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki, Steve seemed surprised that the Mayo was offering
Reiki. I don’t know. Maybe he was channeling Louie. I know the Mayo is a top hospital, but I trained in Minneapolis at Hennepin County and we would have […]
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Skeptics in the Pub. Cholera. Chapter 12a
(Sat, 16 Mar 2024)
I slept like a rock, no dreams that I could remember, and upon awakening, the ball of anxiety that had been my constant companion was gone. I tried to get it back by thinking of all the
unpleasant things that might happen in the next few days. Nothing. I felt good. Acceptance is the final stage of dying, so I must, at […]
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Parasite Cleanse
(Wed, 13 Mar 2024)
Tik Tok is a cesspool of wellness pseudoscience and misinformation. All of social media has the potential to spread misinformation without any filter, but for some reason Tik Tok has become the
preferred platform for the most outrageous claims and nonsense. A recent trend on Tik Tok (and within the wellness community generally) is the parasite cleanse. The idea is that many […]
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