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I write an article every
Tuesday for the Science-Based Medicine blog at http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ Click on the title to go directly to the article.
Alchemy Is Back - Aug 10, 2010
Home Birth Safety - Aug 3, 2010
Glucosamine: The Unsinkable Rubber Duck - Jul 27, 2010
The China Study Revisited: New Analysis of Raw Data Doesn't Support Vegetarian Ideology - Jul 20, 2010 Life Extension: Science or Pipe Dream? - Jul 13, 2010 Shingles Vaccine (Zostavax) Confirmed Safe - Jul 6, 2010
Bioidentical Hormones - Jun 29, 2010
Defending Isagenix: A Case Study in Flawed Thinking - Jun 22, 2010
The Living Matrix: A Movie Promoting Energy Medicine Beliefs - Jun 15, 2010
Metabolic Syndrome: A Useless Construct? - June 8, 2010
Brief Note: The Chiropractic Subluxation is Dead - May 29, 2010
Andrew Wakefield Fights Back - May 28, 2010
Red Meat: Is It Hazardous to Health? - May 25, 2010
Alcohol and Pregnancy - May 18, 2010
Medicine's Beautiful Idea - May 11, 2010
Food Allergies and Food Addiction - May 4, 2010
A Report from the Bariatric Trenches - Apr 27, 2010
Nine Breakthroughs and a Breakdown - Apr 20, 2010
Breastfeeding Is Good but Maybe Not THAT Good - Apr 13, 2010 Taking Control of Death - Apr 6, 2010
Genetic Testing for Patients on Coumadin - Mar 30, 2010
Brief Note: Followup on Spinal Decompression Machines - Mar 28, 2010
Diagnosis, Therapy and Evidence, Mar 16, 2010 Halsted: The Father of Science-Based Surgery, Mar 9, 2010
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach, Mar 2, 2010
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Retroviruses: Jumping the Gun, Feb 23, 2010
Questioning Colonoscopy, Feb 16, 2010
Time to Care: Personal Medicine in the Age of Technology, Feb 9, 2010
Do Cell Phones Prevent Alzheimer's? - Feb 2, 2010
Faith Healing - Jan 26, 2010
The Water Cure: Another Example of Self Deception and the "Lone Genius" - Jan 12, 2010
Osteoporosis Drugs: Good Medicine or Big Pharma Scam? - Jan 5, 2010
The Graston Technique - Inducing Microtrauma with Instruments - Dec 29, 2009
Neti pots - Ancient Ayurvedic Treatment Validated by Scientific Evidence - Dec 1, 2009
Recombinant Human Antithrombin - Milking Nanny Goats for Big Bucks - Nov 24, 2009
Environmental Medicine - Not Your Average Specialty - Nov 17, 2009
The Mythbusters of Psychology - Nov 10, 2009
All Medicines Are Poison! - Nov 3, 2009
Military Medicine in Iraq - Oct 27, 2009
The Montagnier "Homeopathy" Study - Oct 20, 2009
Resveratrol: Of Mice and Men - Oct 13, 2009
Obesity Linked to Stupidity - An Example of Stupid Reporting - Oct 6, 2009
AFP Endorses CAM - (and Billing Fraud?) - Sep 29, 2009
Red Yeast Rice to Lower Cholesterol - Sep 22, 2009
AFP Promotes Acupuncture - Sep 15, 2009
Applying Rigorous Science to Messy Medicine - Sep 13, 2009
Swine Flu Vaccine Fearmongering - Sep 8, 2009 Polish translation Spanish translation Another Spanish translation An Italian translation
"The Disappearing Male" - A Pinch of Science, a Pound of Speculation - Sep 1, 2009
Protandim: Another Kind of Antioxidant - Aug 25, 2009
Why We Need Science: "I saw it with my own eyes" Is Not Enough - Aug 18, 2009 Spanish translation German translation Turkish translation Dutch translation Chiropractic and Deafness: Back to 1895 - Aug 11, 2009
Science-Based Medicine Meets Medical Ethics - Aug 4, 2009
Incorporating Placebos into Mainstream Medicine - Jul 28, 2009
Is Tylenol Safe? - Jul 21, 2009
Birth Day - Jul 14, 2009
Healing Touch and Coronary Bypass - Jul 7, 2009
Screening Tests: Cumulative Incidence of False Positives - Jun 30, 2009
Tactless About TACT: Critiques Without Substance Should Be Abandoned - Jun 23, 2009
Science Under Siege - Jun 16, 2009
Vaccines and Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy - Jun 9, 2009
Adverse Effects of Chiropractic - Jun 2, 2009
Another Kind of Evolutionary Medicine - May 26, 2009
AA Is Faith-Based, Not Evidence-Based - May 19, 2009
Re-Evaluating Home Monitoring for Diabetes: Science-Based Medicine at Work - May 12,2009
Chiropractic in the News - May 5, 2009
Acupuncture for IVF Revisited - More Tooth Fairy Science? - Apr 28, 2009
Is IV Sedation Over-Used? - Apr 21, 2009
Evolutionary Medicine - Apr 14, 2009
PSA - To Screen or Not to Screen - Apr 7, 2009
Hyping Health Risks - Mar 31, 2009
Involuntary Treatment - Civil Rights or Civil Wrongs? - Mar 24, 2009
Shame on PBS! - Mar 17, 2009
The China Study - Mar 10, 2009
Bad Books - Mar 3, 2009
Healing But Not Curing - Feb 24, 2009
Edzard Ernst Does It Again - Feb 17, 2009
Chiropractic's Pathetic Response to Stroke Concerns - Feb 10. 2009
Amish Home Burn Treatment: B&W Salve and Burdock Leaves - Feb 3, 2009
Psychiatry-Bashing - Jan 27, 2009
Science-Based Longevity Medicine - Jan 20, 2009
Playing by the Rules - Jan 13, 2009
South Dakota's Abortion Script: The Hijacking of Informed Consent - Jan 6, 2009
The $150,000 Vaccine Challenge - Dec 30, 2008 Santa Visits the Hospital - Dec 23, 2008
Paternalism Revisited - Dec 16, 2008
"I Reject Your Reality" - Germ Theory Denial and Other Curiosities - Dec 9, 2008
Does TV Cause Teen Pregnancy? - Dec 2, 2008
Gulf War Illness - Nov 25, 2008
Biofeedback and Laser for Allergies - Nov 18, 2008
Statins are Better on JUPITER - Nov 11, 2008
Circumcision: What Does Science Say? - Nov 4, 2008
Another Useless NCCAM-Funded Study - Oct 28, 2008
Puncturing the Acupuncture Myth - Oct 21, 2008
Massage for AIDS - Oct 14, 2008 Cholesterol Skeptics Strike Again - Oct 9, 2008 What's for Dinner? - Sep 30, 2008 Misleading Ads in Scientific American - Sep 22, 2008
4 Minute Exercise Machine - Sep 16, 2008
Is Kava Safe? - Sep 9, 2008
Misleading Ads for Back Pain Treatment - Sep 2, 2008
Trick or Treatment - Aug 26, 2008
Peruvian Hamsters and Autism: Cui Bono? - Aug 19, 2008
Polypharmacy - Is It Evidence-Based? - Aug 12, 2008
Sterile Water Injections for Pain Relief - Aug 5, 2008
An Herbal Cure for Peanut Allergy? - Jul 29, 2008
Can Psychosis Be Prevented? - Jul 22, 2008
Should I Take a Multivitamin? - Jul 15, 2008
Are Cardiologists Ordering Too Many CT Angiograms? - Jul 8, 2008
Chiropractic Strokes Again! A Landmark Lawsuit in Canada - Jul 1, 2008
Death by Medicine - Jun 24, 2008
Not Treating - A Neglected Option - Jun 17, 2008
Mercury Must Be Bad - If Not in Vaccines, in Teeth - Jun 10, 2008
Diagnostic Dilemmas - Jun 3, 2008
Christiane Northrup: Science Tainted with Strange Beliefs - May 27, 2008
Reading Medical Literature with a Critical Eye - May 20, 2008
The Art of Clinical Decision-Making - May 13, 2008
On Being Certain - May 6, 2008
Chiropractic and Stroke - Apr 29, 2008
Women in Medicine - Apr 22, 2008
Charlatan: Quackery Then and Now - Apr 15, 2008
SPECT Scans at the Amen Clinic - A New Phrenology? - Apr 8, 2008
Hormone Replacement Therapy - Apr 1, 2008
Business of Being Born - Mar 25, 2008
Thoughts on Neuroplasticity - Mar 18, 2008
Science and Chiropractic - Mar 11, 2008
Ultrasound Screening - Misleading the Public - Mar 4, 2008
Glucosamine Update - Feb 26, 2008
Antibiotics for Sinusitis - Feb 19, 2008
Another Acupuncture Study - On Heartburn - Feb 12, 2008
International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics - Feb 5, 2008
Does Glucosamine Really Work? - Jan 29, 2008
Akavar 20/50 and Truth in Advertising - Jan 22, 2008
No-Touch Chiropractic - Jan 15, 2008
Snake Oil Science - Jan 8, 2008
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