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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Politics

Starchild Abraham Cherrix doing well?

Ensconced at a conference center in North Carolina near Abel‘s and Bora‘s home turf since Saturday, I appear to have missed an update on the story of Starchild Abraham Cherrix. As you may recall, he is a 16 year old who fought for the right to pursue “alternative” therapy over evidence-based medicine to treat his […]

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Medicine Politics

More weekend YouTube: Some rather pointless stem cell propaganda

I’m still kind of scratching my head over this one. It’s preaching to the converted and is not particularly illuminating. Surely they could have come up with something better. (Via the bioethics web log.)

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Medicine Politics Science

It’s a start

It may not seem like much when it comes to dealing with animal rights “activists” who cross the line into vandalism, harassment, and intimidation, but it’s a start: Three animal rights activists who organized a campaign to harass employees and clients of a New Jersey research lab were sen tenced to prison yesterday by a […]

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Politics Science

More on the declining funding of R01 grants

I hadn’t planned on writing about this again after yesterday. The subject is profoundly depressing to those of us needing to compete for declining NIH grant resources with only a 9% chance of success the first time. However, given that Your Friday Dose of Woo will make an appearance tomorrow to make everything all right; […]

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History Politics

One last September 11 post

For an unforgettable perspective on the tragic events of five years ago, watch this video. No further comment by me is necessary. The video speaks for itself.