Study: Vaccine against bacterial meningitis shows promise – USATODAY.com. The study is published in the Lancet (how ironic), and the conclusions (from the original study) state that 91-100% of participants (who received the vaccine) had high titers of antibodies for… Read More »Study: Vaccine against bacterial meningitis shows promise
Rosa Rubicondior: Where Creationists Get Confused.. Creationists utilize numerous logical fallacies to either “disprove” evolution (using rhetoric and religious text) or to “prove” creationism. Usually, however, they stick with trying to showing how evolution is wrong, thereby, implying that creationism… Read More »Rosa Rubicondior: Where Creationists Get Confused.
Oklahoma bill attacks evolution and climate change | NCSE. Not only is the sixth evolution denialist bill proposed by state legislatures since the beginning of the year (which is about 3 weeks long so far), it throws in climate change… Read More »Oklahoma bill attacks evolution and climate change
The first artificial sweetener poisoned lots of Romans. Three word commentary: lead acetate. Yuck. I’ll stick with Splenda and Nutrasweet, thank you!
BBC News – India rejects ‘total drug resistant TB’ claim. As opposed to early reports that I’ve discussed previously about the totally drug resistant tuberculosis strain that has appeared in India, the Indian government seems to state otherwise. I’ll wait… Read More »India rejects ‘total drug resistant TB’ claim
MRSA in pork products: does the “antibiotic-free” label make a difference? : Aetiology. It’s interesting how science seems to be slowly debunking the healthiness (whatever that might mean) of natural, organic, hormone-free, or, in this case, antibiotic free foods. Actually,… Read More »MRSA in pork products: does the “antibiotic-free” label make a difference? : Aetiology
I saved this list from something I read a few years ago, when I first became interested in pseudoscience (not from a pure profit standpoint, just to be a cantankerous debater). It’s quite useful. How to rate a work of… Read More »Objective rating calculator for pseudoscientific works
BBC News – La Nina ‘linked’ to flu pandemics. An interesting article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences correlates the La Niña conditions in the equatorial area of the Pacific with flu pandemics. The authors propose that… Read More »BBC News – La Nina ‘linked’ to flu pandemics
8 Hunterdon county children diagnosed with whooping cough were behind on vaccines | NJ.com. So here are more children that should have been vaccinated against a disease that is preventable by a simple vaccination. It’s just so frustrating. Oh, one… Read More »8 Hunterdon county children diagnosed with whooping cough were behind on vaccines
Andrew Wakefield sues BMJ for claiming MMR study was fraudulent | Society | guardian.co.uk. Poor Andy. He writes a fraudulent article in The Lancet, which the prestigious journal eventually has to withdraw and his co-authors disown the same article. Brian… Read More »Andrew Wakefield sues BMJ for claiming MMR study was fraudulent