The Real Problem with Conspiracy Theories

A quick note before I start this one.  I’d like to say thanks to Scott, Benny, Michael, and Jareth for letting me babble on about this one before and after the Darwin Day lecture.  All of your comments helped me solidify my thoughts on a few of these issues.  And Benny?  You were right about [...]

Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads: Friend or Foe?

I started looking into this topic on a whim, and after reading the growing amount of literature analyzing this issue, I find myself drawing some surprising conclusions. I find those direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads annoying and vacuous. What controlling your cholesterol with prescription medication has to do with picnics with your grandkids and hand-holding on the [...]

Age of Projectionism

The anti-vaccination quacks at Age of Autism (AoA) decided that instead of addressing individual refutations from the bloggers coming out of the incredibly successful Scienceblogs, that they’d just launch one big ad hominem attack on the entire site. As always, don’t expect them to include any actual science in their rants. They don’t understand it [...]

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