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In the journal of Make Sh*t Up…oh, wait, I mean the Journal of Bioscience Hypotheses…an author throws out an idea (completely divorced from any reality) and then the news – specifically LiveScience and Fox News – report it as scientific fact. This latest pseudo-science reporting is so BOGUS, it almost makes those of us here […] There were several neat articles this week about whether or not animals actually laugh. I got a real charge out of it – the idea that chimps chuckle when tickled, that even gorillas can guffaw – and then we got to the part where a cat’s purr is called a laugh, plus the claim that […] We here at Doc Gurley were hoping, like most people, to just ignore the latest, clearly BOGUS pseudo-science news. Unfortunately, such was not to be – the Atlantic article by a (self-described as rage-filled-about-the-act-of-breastfeeding) mom, who claims that – really – there’s no good data to support breastfeeding – just won’t die. Go on any […] There are few organizations that have retained their good name and great works like the American College of Physicians Image by birdfarm via Flickr has (ACP is the alternative to the AMA in many people’s books). With that same integrity, incisive style, and thoroughness, the ACP delivers a great Grand Rounds this week – all […] A New Year’s BOGUS has been born! (is it just me, or did that happen awfully fast?). And let me tell you, this Image by rochelle, et. al. via Flickr one is a ten-pound whopper with a stinky diaper chock-full of…well, you get the idea. An “evolutionary biologist” published an actual paper asserting that the […] In a story that has gotten surprisingly little media coverage, a doctor from Image via Wikipedia Colorado will go on trial for the suicidal death of a 19-year-old Stanford student. Why should this story have gotten wider coverage? Because the Colorado doctor prescribed Prozac to the located-in-California 19-year-old, without ever seeing or talking to him, […] |
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