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Category: Ethics
Have you ever walked around an 19th century (or earlier) graveyard? It gives you a depressing snapshot of the old reality: so many young women dead in childbirth, so many children reaped by diseases. We've been fortunate, we residents of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:28 AM • 61 Comments •
Category: Medicine
It must be tough running a charity. You've got a cause you care deeply about, and you're constantly juggling the game of having to spend money (in administration, advertising, staff) to raise money (for the cause!), and worse, of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:10 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Mondays are my long, long days — this is the day I get to spend 3 hours talking to students in small groups about cancer (they're young and invincible, so so far it hasn't been as depressing as I feared.)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:17 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Medicine
Want to spend an hour cringing and twitching? This is the abridged version of "Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision", and you will suffer if you watch it. It is a wasteful, terrible thing to do to a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:24 AM • 130 Comments •
Category: Medicine
You've probably heard the story going around that Steve Jobs' death was avoidable, if only he hadn't been so gullible as to steep himself in quack medicine. It turns out, though, that the story is a lot more complicated than...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:34 AM • 32 Comments •
Category: Medicine
I'm afraid Ben Cochran is one of them. He's a nursing student who wrote a column in a newspaper because he was upset at the time it took for the emergency medical services at his local clinic to help him...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:57 PM • 46 Comments •
Category: Books
Among the many joys plaguing me recently is learning that I get to teach, for the first time for me and for the first time at my university, I get to teach a course in cancer biology this spring term....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:12 AM • 44 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
There was another Republican debate (I skipped it; there are limits to the horrors I can endure), and apparently, many people think Michele Bachmann trumped Rick Perry by jumping on his 'liberal' endorsement of using the HPV vaccine to prevent...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:28 AM • 50 Comments •
Category: Equality
We're finally rid of Jerry Lewis and his smarmy, condescending sponsorship of a telethon for muscular dystrophy. I think he meant well, but he had the wrong ideas: this article celebrating his absence makes a significant point. There are many...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:44 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Medicine
My wife and I have three kids, and while that pregnancy and childbirth thing is way, way back in the past, we did have some strong opinions after our experience. Midwives were wonderful, we had only the best and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:09 PM • 66 Comments •
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