HIV Snake Oil 'cure' leads to arrests in Uganda
Category: HIV/AIDS
Snake-oil salesmen arrested for selling $210 'miracle cure'.
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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.
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Skepticism/Critical Thinking:
If at first you dont succeed, deny, deny again
Category: HIV/AIDS
HIV Denier has paper forcibly retracted, turns around and republishes it in an embryology journal.
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Blatantly inappropriate data analysis still counts as lying
Category: General Science
BlogBrother Ethan Siegel just caught (yet another) scientist manipulating data to generate the conclusion they want... not the conclusion the data actually supports.Exposing a Climate Science FraudYeah, thats how we roll on SciBlogs. But in my example, the scientists actively...
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lol, WUT?
Category: General Science
HOW do you get from THAT publication to "Important health tip for the summer: Drink more wine!" I hate you science media. I hate you.
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Reason #984736284372 I dont fit in with 'feminists'
Category: Douchebaggery!
LOL! A REPUBLICAN IS IN SHAPE SO HES, LIEK, TOTALLY GAY! HAHAHA! *blink*
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'Chronic Lyme' and 'XMRV'-- A horse of the same color
Category: Skepticism/Critical Thinking
I want you all to see an article I just found via Relative Risk Blog. Its about 'Chronic Lyme Disease'. About a young woman who was aggressively treated by a 'questionable' practitioner who had 'cured herself' of 'Chronic Lyme'. No...
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FDA wants to keep people out of Eden!
Category: Skepticism/Critical Thinking
FDA tries to rein in 'Gene-Eden', a melange of plants that cures treats 'addresses' every infection under the Sun.
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Suddenly, cuckoo bananas!
Category: Skepticism/Critical Thinking
Thousands of them! Anti-vax cuckoo bananas conspiracy theories.
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BioRay: Whittemore Peterson Institutes BFF is a woo-factory
Category: Skepticism/Critical Thinking
Judge an organization by the company they keep...
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Wanna chat with Steve Novella?
Category: Skepticism/Critical Thinking
"A diagnosis of Alzheimers disease, MS, Parkinson's or ALS is devastating. There are no cures. Mainline treatments are not miraculous. Desperate, many patients and their families turn to the world of alternative medicine for help."
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