As I was standing there fishing in Appalachia today I was thinking about yesterday's post. I realized a couple of things that I didn't include and so I'm going to say them now. First off, I've lived the better part of 60 years on this planet, and I remember when we didn’t have vaccines …
Continue reading The Stakes of Science
Before everything today I just want to say rest in peace to Loretta Swit. You were adored as Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H. You willingly became a champion for women in the military as well as nursing without doing anything more than playing an honest role as a nurse in a mobile Army surgical hospital …
Continue reading The Myth of Medical Perfection (and the Reality That Follows)
A patron exhales vapor from an e-cigarette at a store in New York. Juul and other vaping companies face an escalating backlash that threatens to sweep their products off the market. (Frank Franklin II, File) The Independent ( UK) published an OP-ED validating the message that we have been sending out from the castle. …
Well, not really but something used as an anesthetic and abused as a club drug is now in trials to be used as an antidepressant. My first thought is, "huh?" While I am a big fan of evidence-based medicine, the trials of "club drugs" makes me always skeptical. It's weird to think about how progressive …
