In recent years, there has been a small bit of backlash against the ubiquitous use of antibacterial soaps. Indeed, research beginning in 2002 has continued to confirm that based on both effectiveness and potential negative side effects, there really is no reason to use these soaps and plenty of reasons not to.
The active antibacterial [...]
This is a comment, based on personal experience in this area, on the latest news about Vioxx - that Merck hired “ghostwriters” to write the scientific papers about Vioxx and thus were perpetrating “fraud.”
A new report (Ross, J.S., MD, MHS; K.P. Hill, MD, MHS; D.S. Egilman, MD, MPH; H.M. Krumholz, MD, SM. 2008. Guest [...]
Time to start getting your omega-3’s from plants. We are long past the golden age of fish production and quickly approaching a complete crash of most fisheries, in case you had not noticed. Probably it was inevitable, but over a decade ago, a couple of biologists figured it was worth a shot to [...]
There is a fallacious argument commonly held and cited by pro-private-property advocates. The argument goes that interested parties having private property results in the reverse of the “tragedy of the commons,” which holds that public resources are over-exploited because they belong to nobody, and thus are not worth protecting; if I do not grab [...]
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