Just yesterday a student mentioned her love for chanting and how it’s changed her life for the better. Along with the excess pounds, this person lost her impatience while driving in her car thanks to chanting. If you ever pull up alongside her at a traffic light, she’s sure to have a chanting CD blasting […]

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If you are a resident of California, rejoice, because the Supreme Court let stand a decision in the 9th Circuit finding that SB 1 (California’s Financial Information Privacy Act) was not preempted by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In plain English, this means that California residents can opt-out of “affiliate sharing” among banks. Thus, if […]

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A long while back, at the original wordpress incarnation of this blog, I wrote a piece on the reasons that chiropractic is unscientific nonsense. Because it was popular, I moved it over here. Well, a chiropractor has come to bravely defend his field and left us a comment.
A study in the May 2007 issue of […]

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The best of last June
Triatoma infestans, Chagas vector This is the conclusion of a report to be published in the June 2008 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases journal. The report, by Peter Hotez of George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute, is a clear indictment of economic disparity in the United States. The […]

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A few days ago we posted about hedge funds getting ready for a swine flu pandemic. At the time we wondered what other industries and businesses were getting ready. We don’t know the answer, but we are seeing more signs the message has gotten through. Yesterday we saw this story about a regional airport in […]

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PalCast 12 is up.
Some relevant links:

Anal Cancer
HPV and cancer

Simon Singh and chiroquacktic

A blogospheric proposal

Bad medical ideas

Crazy new autism ideas

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If you had the choice between the “standard” option for insurance or the naturopathic option, which would you choose?

(Click to see the full cartoon; it’s a bit old. But I hadn’t seen it before; so it’s new to me.)
Of course, this is the very reason alt-med boosters don’t want anyone to have to choose. They […]

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Our ship, The Arctic Sunrise is currently heading north along the west coast of Greenland in a race against time. It’s destination is the disintegrating Petermann Glacier, but to reach the glacier our ship must pass through the Nares Strait, which could be flooded with dangerous multi-year ice at any moment. A team of independent […]

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AOL’s celebrity gossip page TMZ.com was first yesterday to report Michael Jackson’s death, in part due to their direct line to one or more Jackson family members.
They appear to have had another scoop today in referencing a family member who reported that Mr Jackson had received an injection of the opioid analgesic, Demerol (meperidine), at […]

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Here we go again. Celebrity dies at a slightly unusual age from an acute failure of essential bodily physiological competence and I’m thinking about drugs. My man @abelpharmboy sent me a note yesterday anticipating the same thing I did when learning of Michael Jackson’s heart attack and demise. Now of course our resident expert in […]

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