Since this seems to be the day for applying Respectful Insolence⢠to people who say stupid things about me… Everyone knows that Dean Esmay and I don’t exactly see eye to eye on a lot of things. Indeed, it could be safely said that Dean has nothing but contempt for me. It doesn’t bother me. […]
Month: July 2007
I was going to write about a recent study that purports to claim that smoking pot causes schizophrenia that’s been making the rounds lately. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you see it), this week’s host of the Skeptics’ Circle, Mark Hoofnagle, beat me to it. Can you say, “Correlation does not necessarily equal causation”? […]
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A couple of weeks ago, inspired by a somewhat drunken encounter two weeks prior, against my better judgment, I waded into the evidence supporting the contention that secondhand smoke is harmful to health, increasing the risk of heart disease and lung cancer in workers chronically exposed to it. In response to a list of quotes […]
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If you want to know how clueless our current President is about healthcare and the uninsured, just check out this quote from a speech he gave recently: The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you […]
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I’ve been a bit remiss about reporting an update on the Tripoli Six, six foreign health care workers who were falsely accused of intentionally infecting children at a hospital in Libya with HIV, leading to their being convicted and sentenced to death. The evidence against them was crap, and scientific analyses showed that the strain […]
