I have a few links in my tabs about the ongoing war on women that need highlighting, but I honestly don’t have a lot of time to give each of them the thorough treatment they deserve, so I figure I’ll do up a link roundup instead and revisit later. Or possibly in comments, if this …
Tag Archive: medicine
Feb 25 2012
Cell phones annoying, says science
Cellular phone technology has come under scrutiny in recent years — meaning, since it has come into popular use — by technophobes and technostress victims alike. Despite being evidently harmless, innumerable claims of it causing cancer, tinnitus, headaches, and any number of non-specific symptoms have emerged such that many scientific studies have been undertaken to …
Feb 19 2012
Canadian acupuncturist: “Cervical cancer is for prostitutes”
Our allies at Skeptic North cover a Canadian acupuncturist who claims that cervical cancer is a disease for prostitutes and promiscuous women. My research about cervical cancer at the time told me it was very rare and that it occurred most often in women who had multiple sexual partners, who also had multiple sexual partners. …
Jan 15 2012
Israeli gynaecological conference: no women speakers allowed
Orthodox Jewish leaders in Israel have been quietly handed a victory by Benjamin Netanyahu, where they exclude woman doctors from a conference about a topic that decidedly should not be male domain except by virtue of patriarchy: gynaecology. The conference will discuss the care and medical treatment of issues pertaining to women’s reproductive organs but …
Jan 07 2012
Whooping cough outbreak in Hope, BC
Twenty new cases of pertussis have been reported in the Hope area since August. While previous outbreaks have been due to children going unvaccinated, in this case, it seems the outbreak is resultant of people not getting their boosters. The health authority is asking healthcare professionals and members of the public in the Hope area …
Dec 27 2011
Are there good arguments for male circumcision?
C0nc0rdance has made a thorough and balanced video outlining the case for and against routine circumcision. What do you folks think?
Dec 21 2011
Canadian-made HIV vaccine headed to human trials!
And I damn well want every syringe to be stamped “Made In Canada”. The FDA has approved a 40-person trial of a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang of the University of Western Ontario. “FDA approval for human clinical trials is an extremely significant milestone for our vaccine, which has …
Dec 09 2011
An Experiential Comparison of General Anaesthetic and Dental Sedation
Guest post by my wife, Jodi. Taking care of her yesterday and today, combined with Skyrim which we purchased to give her something to do and me something to obsess over (other than her), has lead to a dearth of time for blog commenting; apologies. I’m sure there’s lots of SIWOTI out there to eat …
Nov 21 2011
Mike Adams has never met a skeptic in real life, part 3
Part three of a point-by-point fisking of Mike Adams’ January 2010 anti-skeptic article, which amounts to a single monolithic colony organism made up of individual strawman arguments that come together to become one massive strawman Voltron. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. I’m almost through all the things Mike Adams thinks that …
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