Denialism

Author: MarkH

  • Gupta for Surgeon General? Cool.

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    As my regular readers know, I recently lost my father-in-law. He was a terrific teacher and loved to brag about students who had done well. One of his favorite “brags” was Sanjay Gupta of CNN, and now, the Washington Post is reporting that Obama wants Sanjay to be the next Surgeon General. Dick, I wish…

  • Podcast 4

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    Podcast 4 is up…check it out.

  • Dr. Egnor: taking medicocrity to a whole new level

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    I hate to do this to you but I have to fisk a fisking. You see, Dr. Michael Egnor, the creationist neurosurgeon, was a bit miffed about my takedown of a particularly idiotic post of his. For those of you who left your program at the gate, Egnor is a (apparently competent) neurosurgeon in New…

  • Open letter to the protesters at the corner

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    (note: i didn’t go out except to the hospital, and had to rely on what my upset friends and family reported) Dear Protesters, As someone who loves our American democracy, I value your right to protest. I would even fight to protect it. Still, I wish you would exercise some common decency. Today, when you…

  • ScienceOnline09—let’s get moving!

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    ScienceOnline09 is rapidly approaching, and I’m very excited about my “geek-cation”. I’ll be co-moderating a session on anonymity with Abel from TerraSig, and I’ll be leading a session on Blogging 101 at which you can actually start a real blog. w00t! I’m also hoping to talk some people into joining me for a podcast, preferably…

  • The war has begun…

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    …and I’m just itchin’ for a fight. The medical “De-lightenment”, that movement to marginalize the role of science in medicine, has just made a strategic error. Like other weak movements, they’ve formed unwise alliances. Orac reports that so-called mainstream altmed folks like Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra have now made friends with the more obviously…

  • Antidepressants, physical dependence, and semantics

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    Antidepressants are a very useful class of medications. With the introduction of the first modern antidepressant, fluoxetine (Prozac) in the U.S. in the late 1980’s, the pharmacologic treatment of depression has undergone a revolution (and an enduring controversy). Older classes of antidepressants were often effective, but came with a host of unpleasant toxicities—MAOIs can lead…

  • Happy New Year! Now who are you again?

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    I’ve been spending a lot of time with family and friends lately, something I don’t often get the chance to do. And while I’m not happy about the reason for it, I’m still thankful for all the friends I sometimes forget I have. One thing I found out from many of my friends is that…

  • Podcast #3

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    The latest edition is up at iTunes and Feedburner. Once again, I’ve failed to deliver the product I intended due to some difficult circumstances, but I promise some kind guests and some controversial guests in the future.

  • I’m proud of ScienceBlogs

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    You know, we catch a lot of flack around these parts for being too “political”, and for straying away from “science”. Well, that’s a big load of crap, and two posts by Isis show why. It is impossible to separate politics from science from personal life, at least on one level. Now, perhaps I’ve become…