Breaking news! Mass poisoning of children!
You may not be reading it here first that a bunch of people with long strings of letters after their names -- specifically Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., Thomas Farley, M.D., M.P.H., Walter C. Willett,...
View ArticleSpare the rod -- please!
I mention this subject only because it is really, really important. Murray Strauss was really the first person to gain prominence for academic investigation into family violence. Although we have...
View ArticleBreaking: Incidence of H1N1 grossly overestimated
As I and others have been saying for some time now, the influenza surveillance data which has been used to describe the novel H1N1 pandemic is based, not on actual confirmed cases, but merely on the...
View ArticleWhy we really, really need to stop talking about the #&*!@ flu
I have written quite a lot about how inappropriate and misleading is the massive media obsession with the "novel" (not really) H1N1 influenza strain that's going around. It's misleading because...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Mammography Issue
Since new consensus guidelines on screening mammography have just been promulgated by the Preventive Services Task Force (a panel of experts convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,...
View ArticleA Thought Experiment
For reasons you can guess if you wish, I've been engaged in a thought experiment. Suppose that instead of writing a blog that a few people read when they are home sick and there's nothing on TV --...
View ArticleThe Real Pandemic
Actually there are a few of them -- nowadays we seem to take HIV for granted, for example. But one of the biggest and most complex public health challenges facing the U.S. is not an infectious disease....
View ArticleNobody here but us chickens . . .
guarded by the fox. This is a somewhat complicated story, but I'll try to make it simple. I'll try.In today's BMJ there is a rather unusual Cochrane review of oseltamivir, brand name Tamiflu, which is...
View ArticleWolf! Wolf!
The European medical community was always a bit less amped up about the H1N1 "pandemic" than their counterparts here, and they have been much more reflective about the mass hysteria now that it has...
View ArticleToday in Iraq
As Iraqis go to the polls today for what is probably their most important election in memory, I'm posting my usual Sunday news roundup from Iraq Today here on Kos. We still need to pay attention to...
View ArticleStop worrying about Eric Massa
I hope Glenn Beck spends an entire show talking with the guy. It turns out the ethics complaint against him is that he serially groped male staffers over a whole year. And now, it wasn't filed by...
View ArticleThe pecularities of priorities
You've probably already heard about the new study in Pediatrics that finds a link between urinary levels of metabolites of organophosphate pesticides and diagnosis of ADHD in children. I've been...
View ArticleThe American Disease
It seems to be a pathological aversion to self-examination. As you are unlikely to know from the U.S. corporate media, which has largely ignored the story, the UK is currently holding a public inquiry...
View ArticleMalicious Prosecution
(I haven't been active here for quite a while but I figured what the heck, I'll show up again. This isn't exactly standard Kos fare but it might interest some people.)I am just aghast at the actions...
View ArticlePerformance Art?
Your Intertubes are abuzz with speculation over what the non-self-made ostensible (though 4 times bankrupt) billionaire with the four-dimensional comb-over is really up to -- is he running for...
View ArticleExtinction is forever
And we generally feel bad about it. But I haven't heard anybody complain about the eradication of smallpox. Now the Carter Center says we are very close to eradicating the Guinea Worm, the parasite...
View ArticleThis is what drives me nuts about "journalism"
Completely nucking futz, as a matter of fact. The "reporter" Julie Rovner on Morning Edition today committed what I would call an egregious act of journalistic malpractice except that it's an...
View ArticleEpic Takedown of WMR
Two of my colleagues here at what is actually the World's Greatest University, and my old friend John McDonough at the institution which only pretends to the honor, fillet Mitt Romney like a salmon on...
View ArticleThe Horror! The Horror
As New Englanders grimly contemplate a month or more of Gronklessness*, an even more horrific prospect appears on the horizon: that president Obama might remove John Kerry from the Senate to the...
View ArticlePrince Harry witnessed a war crime in Afghanistan
Really. UK newspaper the Mail reports that Prince Harry witnessed a war crime by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Really. Excerpt: Prince Harry was no more than 220 yards away when a US trooper standing...
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