Miscellaneous notes of interest
- Here’s an xkcd comic my wife could agree with (I’m sure she’d love to erase my computer… :P ) :
- Why does a Salad cost more than a big Mac? This graph of agricultural subsidies compared with recommended dietary intakes is illuminating. This is for the US, and I don’t know how Canadian numbers compare… (via over my med body!)
- Panda is still in top form with his latest post putting CAM proponents in their place:
You, oh purveyor of snake oil, may exhaust yourself pointing out the flaws in medical science. You may grimly list the horrific side effects of many of our therapies and gleefully highlight the lack of evidence for quite a few things done in the real medical world. You may even solemnly condemn our general inability to really cure much of anything but, apart from making yourself really tired and giving me a crick in my neck from nodding in agreement, all you will have demonstrated is that real medicine is an imperfect business which is not a huge revelation to anyone who has spent more than an hour in a nursing home, a hospital, or any other place where you can find incredibly sick people who, despite our best efforts, often remain incredibly sick and die after being flogged by the mightest weapons in the medical armatorium. A darn shame but it does not follow that the solution to our limited medical knowledge is pixie dust, magical gnomes, or spiritual energy streaming from your fingertips.
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