Certainly not! But unfortunately we need to look a little more closely.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on hard-core woo, and I miss it, so here’s a little tip for you: if a diet sounds too good to be true, then it is. Weight loss is very hard, unless you are very sick. […]

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My First White Tantric Yoga Experience
This past weekend, my karma was gracious enough to bless me with the experience of White Tantric Yoga! (The whole karma concept is truly facinating, I often wonder how was it that the individual karma of all class participants brought us together for the experience. Then the concept of past […]

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With the news that in addition to John McCain both Clinton and Obama have now pandered to anti-vaccine denialism I think it’s time to reiterate there isn’t a political party in this country that has a truly sound grasp on sound science. And in this instance it is clear that both sides are more than […]

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Via Razib, Obama on vaccines:
“We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.”
–Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Rally, April 21, 2008.
and Clinton:
I am committed to make investments to find the causes of autism, […]

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Seems like both the Republican nominee and the likely Democratic nominee entertain the autism and vaccination “hypothesis”. I don’t follow politics very closely, this sort of comment really disturbs me….
Via TNR.
Update: And Clinton too.
Read the comments on this post…

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Happy Earth Day!
When we think of the earth, we’re usually thinking BIG E. What about all of the little Es — individuals (after all, our bodies are our own little biospheres)? Today as we celebrate the Big E (bless Mother Nature!), I’d like to recognize the little earth/world of Yoga bloggers. There is a […]

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Happy Earth Day!
When we think of the earth, we’re usually thinking BIG E. What about all of the little Es — individuals (after all, our bodies are our own little biospheres)? Today as we celebrate the Big E (bless Mother Nature!), I’d like to recognize the little earth/world of Yoga bloggers. There is a […]

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Happy Earth Day!
When we think of the earth, we’re usually thinking BIG E. What about all of the little Es — individuals (after all, our bodies are our own little biospheres)? Today as we celebrate the Big E (bless Mother Nature!), I’d like to recognize the little earth/world of Yoga bloggers. There is a […]

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Yesterday I came across a blog exchange between Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hydeand fellow SBer Physioprof about principal investigators (PIs) who still do experiments in the lab. For those not in the science business, a “principal investigator” is in general the faculty member who runs the lab and whose grants fund the salaries of the […]

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I always say that the shifting baselines syndrome, the tendency for each new generation to accept a degraded environment as normal/natural, is partially a result of the short human lifespan. If we would only live 1000 years, we would do a much better job at taking care of the planet. With the average lifespan in […]

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