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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Science

If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we cure cancer?

Why haven’t we cured cancer yet? If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we cure cancer? If we can harness the atom, why can’t we cure cancer? How many times have you heard these questions, or variants thereof? How many times have you asked this question yourself? Sometimes, I even ask […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Humor Medicine

At least Garry Trudeau is reality based on vaccines

Even Boopsie gets it: it’s good to note how those holding anti-vaccine viewpoints are being increasingly viewed as punchlines. That is how it should be.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Quackery

Ethics and the promotion of another anti-vaccine book

Here’s a chance for some skeptical activism if you happen to live in New York and its environs. It’s book promotion event for the most recent anti-vaccine propaganda piece, Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children by Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland. […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Dr. Jay Gordon’s profound misunderstanding of science

I was originally going to write about Dr. Oz’s show yesterday, entitled What Causes Autism? But then I started watching and realized that I just didn’t have the constitutional fortitude to sit through the whole thing. Sorry to let you down, but there are some blogging tasks that I just can’t handle, at least on […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Quackademic medicine at UCSF: The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine gets a new $37 million building

$37 million. If you were a medical school dean or a hospital administrator and had $37 million for a project, how woud you use it? What would you build? What would you renovate? What research projects would you fund? What infrastructure improvements would you make? Yes, $37 million is a lot of green. Back at […]