Denialism

Month: May 2008

  • Tangled Bank #105

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    The new Tangled Bank is up over at The Beagle Project, and as usual, it’s a great read. Also, I want to give a quick shout-out to my internet buddy Ames who’s hit the blogosphere running, so to speak, with his first carnival post.

  • Medicine is fun!

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    Well, I’m back from a great vacation, and buried under an avalanche of work. Just to give you a hint of what an internist actually does… My office schedule is full—really full. Everybody needs to see me, plus the various sick people I have to squeeze in. It’s great; being busy is fun, but it’s…

  • About that crank

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    So on the blog birthday we asked our dear readers what they’ve learned over the last year, and as a test we gave them this crank who attacks the bisphosphonate anti-osteoporosis drugs in his article “the delusion of bone drugs”. I think the reader with the best grade is LanceR or Martin, but SurgPA would…

  • 2 weeks of General Medicine

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    I’m sorry I’ve been buried the last couple weeks, as I’ve just started my general medicine rotation. Today is my post-call day, which means I get to sleep in and then study all day long. The fire hydrant of information is cranked open full bore again, and the shelf exam for medicine is supposed to…

  • Journalist becomes the story: Discover Magazine luvs teh denialists.

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    HT erv. This is truly annoying because it is so patently wrong. It’s wrong in lots of different ways, but I’ll help point out some of the major flaws. What happens when journalist becomes the story, rather than reports it? You see, there is this journalist, Celia Farber, who apparently has been following the HIV…

  • Skeptics’ Circle #86—don’t bitch to me about it

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    It’s a really good edition up at Skepbitch (who is surprisingly nice). Don’t miss it!

  • What’s in store for Burma?

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    As the death toll in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Nargis becomes clear, new dangers loom. Complete breakdown in essential services and sanitation will conspire to kill thousands more via disease unless the world moves quickly (and maybe, even if we do). Arthropod-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever are likely to flourish as…

  • Aye, there’s the rub–open dream thread.

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    I’ll admit right of the bat that I didn’t do any research before posting this one. I haven’t read any literature on dreams in years, but somehow discussion among some egghead-types turned to common dreams. Among these: –The one where you sign up for a class and forget about it until finals –The one where…

  • GINA—why we should make it irrelevant

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    GINA, the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act, has been passed by the House and the Senate, and will be signed by the president. Others have explained some of the implications of the bill, but the need for the bill is a grave sign. GINA is a symptom…a symptom of a diseased health care system. Health insurance…

  • TEOTWAWKI!

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    The end of the world is a common religious idea. The end of this planet and the end of time itself are ideas not unknown to cosmologists, but are not exactly an immediate threat. To certain religious groups, the threat is now, and is welcome. “Signs” are everywhere. Of course, we’ve been down this road…