Yes, it’s that time again, time for the most dedicated skeptics of the blogosphere to gather once again to try to apply critical thinking in an environment where credulity is usually the order of the day, and dubious stories can proliferate and spread around the world in mere hours. This time, Abel Pharmboy is your […]
Earlier this week, I wrote about how the principles of population evolution can be applied to premalignant lesions in order to predict which lesions would progress to cancer. This time around, I’d like to discuss how using evolutionary principles can provide insights to human disease that would not be as obvious or that would take […]
Another great edition of Tangled Bank has been posted at The Island of Doubt. (It’s hard to believe that Tangled Bank has been around now for nearly two years. Time flies.) What are you waiting for?
A week ago, I wrote about my wife and my visiting Body Worlds at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Well, it looks as though another physician Dr. Charles has visited it as well and has some ideas comments about the exhibit.
It’s that time again. In less than three days, the latest Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle will be posted at Terra Sigillata (who, by the way, wrote an excellent post while I was away at my meeting on why we should continue to study rare cancers). You have until Wednesday evening to submit to him […]
