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>Doctors, faith and helping the poor
>The Chicago Tribune published an article on a study concerning doctors who help the poor. I haven’t read the actual article, yet, but I wonder how the “poor” are defined and question the definition of “religiosity” vs. spiritual. For one thing, I’m not sure how, as a Family Physician, I would separate my patients into … Continue reading
>"Exaggerated resistance" (Or how not to report science)
>Scientific American gives us several reasons to “resist” the information in its pages this month, the August, 2007 issue. Unfortunately, only the Table of Contents is free, but the problem is in the titles given “news” stories themselves. Under the title, “Roots of Science Hatred,” on page 29 we learn that people learn to trust … Continue reading
>Global Warming: No Debate? (Reporting bias)
>Just one more example of the effects of reporting bias in the scientific literature – and another warning to be wary, even about “consensus.” The journal, Nature, now reviews its own blogs on a web page titled the “From the blogosphere,”a subheading of the “Author” web page., on the homepage of the journal’s website. The … Continue reading
>Why most Published Research Findings Are False
>Chasing links today, I somehow stumbled upon found this very interesting title:John Ioannidis, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” PLoS Medicine, vol. 2 (2005), pp. 696-701. Brush up on your statistics and ability to evaluate scientific literature (and those that report on the same).
>Prolonged culture of embryos, stem cells and more Free Stuff
>This week’s (June 27) Nature.com “Advance Online Publication” contains two “Letters” describing the production of embryonic stem cells from “epiblast” cells, one in mice and rats, one focusing on mice. Full content is restricted to subscription-only, but you can listen to a discussion about the studies on the free podcast from Nature, here, and the … Continue reading
Pay for embryo destruction added to Senate Bill
Senators Specter and Harkin, in the Senate Appropriations Committee, have added funding for research on embryos destroyed in research between the August 9, 2001 cutoff point and June 15, 2007 to “a must-pass bill for the Labor and Health and Human Services”. The Bill must make it through the Senate, the House and the possible … Continue reading
>Racism, politics, and really big numbers
>Last week’s announcement that three different labs have managed to not only reproduce work showing that certain genes are responsible for embryonic-stem-cell-ness, but actually managed to turn adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells has been widely reported and comment upon. Times Magazine displays blatant racism and not a little naivete in their report, “Japan gets … Continue reading
>Corrigendum – or "Correction in Print"
>I’ve learned two new words in the last two days: eponymous (“self-named” or named after the thing itself) and “corrigendum” (a correction of an error found after printing, which is corrected with a separate printed page.) I just had to use the latter in my title. The journal Nature has retracted (sorry, subscription only) a … Continue reading
Virtual science vs. actual experimentation (Emergency Contraception)
There’s still no evidence that Plan B interferes with implantation, and lots of evidence that it doesn’t. There have been reports that Drs. Mikolajczyk and Stanford (“Levonorgestrel emergency contraception: a joint analysis of effectiveness and mechanism of action.” Fertility and Sterility R. Mikolajczyk, J. Stanford, access to free abstract available, here) have proven that there … Continue reading
Austin Texas Patients In Adult Stem Cell Research
The Austin, Texas TV station, KEYE, has a report on the research trial using donated adult stem cells from bone marrow in patients within 10 days of a heart attack. (I’ve highlighted the part about the bone marrow.) Seema Mathur Reporting (CBS 42) AUSTIN A clinical stem cell trial involving Austin patients has some doctors … Continue reading
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