A few updates
I’m just killing time in the Health Sciences Library while waiting for my ride (carpooling – environmental-friendliness and all that! :P), so now is as good a time as any to get caught up on miscellaneous links my avid readers (yes, both of them!) may enjoy:
- The Harper Government’s been trying to hide things. What a shock! As pointed out by a few commentators, doing your best to quietly release (without internet distribution) a Health Canada report on the negative consequences of Global Warming makes you seem like a third-world, despotic government. For those who didn’t notice this already…
- How to Buy a Car and Not Get Screwed. Great advice!
- Skeptico has a great essay on Provenance and the spot-on criticism of “philosophies of healing” that are pulled from con artist’s nether regions — some of which end up being passed on for thousands of years. Doesn’t make them any more true or worthwhile; which is why I worry about essays like this one on “Integrative Medicine” appearing in the latest Canadian Family Physician, which show our whole medical establishment abandoning science and sliding into woo-land. I am toying with writing something more detailed about that article, but knowing myself, I likely won’t get to it. In the meantime, enjoy Orac’s recent review of yet another study showing that acupuncture doesn’t work.
- Really cool new development in gene therapy – turning non-islet pancreatic cells into insulin-secreting ones!
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