For your consideration
Category: humor
Sent by a friend, posted without further comment (original pic here)....
Posted by PalMD at 10:41 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
White Coat Underground
Musings on the intersection of science, medicine, and culture
Profile
PalMD is a practicing internist in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.. Aside from the great joy he finds in his family and his work, he likes communicating some of that joy to others. He has a special interest in the ways patients---and we are all patients at one time or another---are deceived by charlatans. He aims to change the world, one reader at a time. Previous writings can still be found here, and here. I also write twice a month for Science-Based Medicine
Please read the DISCLAIMERS.
Subscribe to my feed today!
Search
Recent Posts
- Skeptics' Circle #124 is up
- Science-based medicine: we are not automatons
- Why I won't be prescribing medical marijuana
- "I'm not getting a flu shot because I never get the flu"
- No shame: antivaccine ghouls defame the dead, and elevate the disgraced
- Covering Alternative Medicine---Another perspective
- Another way to find swine flu shots
- The "R" word: why we shouldn't fear health care rationing
- Mumps redux
- Doctors are just like military dictators
Recent Comments
- Donna B. on Science-based medicine: we are not automatons
- makarios on Science-based medicine: we are not automatons
- D. C. Sessions on Covering Alternative Medicine---Another perspective
- rb on Science-based medicine: we are not automatons
- ZenMonkey on Why I won't be prescribing medical marijuana
- ZenMonkey on Why I won't be prescribing medical marijuana
- MonkeyPox on Science-based medicine: we are not automatons
- D. C. Sessions on Covering Alternative Medicine---Another perspective
- D. C. Sessions on Covering Alternative Medicine---Another perspective
- D. C. Sessions on Covering Alternative Medicine---Another perspective
Archives
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- January 2008
- November 2007
Blogroll
I have a very liberal blogroll policy. If you want to be added, just drop me a line.- Almost Diamonds
- Anonymous Doc
- Avian Flu Diary
- Bad Astronomy
- Bad Science
- Behind the Stick
- Cordial Deconstruction
- Crowded Head, Cozy Bed
- CyberLizard's Collection
- Deep-Sea News
- denialism blog
- The Digital Cuttlefish
- The End of the Pier Show
- ERV
- Evangelical Realism
- Evidence-based public health
- Everything Changes
- The Examinging Room of Dr. Charles
- FYI: Science!
- Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes
- Medical Products Insight Blog
- The Intersection
- Isis the Scientist
- The Lay Scientist
- Mad Scientist, Jr.
- Neurologica
- Nothing shocks me, I'm a scientist.
- Opining Online
- Pandagon
- The Perky Skeptic
- Physicians for a National Health Program
- The Primate Diaries
- Quiche Moraine
- RationalWiki
- Repeated Measures
- Respectful Insolence
- Science and Religion News
- Science After Sunclipse
- Science-Based Medicine
- Skepchick
- Skepticblog
- Skeptico
- The Skeptic's Dictionary
- Skulls in the Stars
- Stranger than you can imagine
- Submitted to a Candid World
- Tangled Up in Blue Guy
- Terra Sigillata
- The Tufted Titmouse
- What's the Harm?
April 30, 2009
Don't miss your PalCast
Category: PalCast
I'd like to remind everyone that the PalCast, after a brief hiatus, is up and running again. Given the chaos of life and work (and the fact that work is likely to get even busier very, very soon) the schedule...
Posted by PalMD at 8:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why science rocks (and splashes)
Category: Medicine
Physicist Matt Springer might not know much about borborygmi, shifting dullness, or a succussion splash, but the man knows his science. You've got to read his piece on poop. You won't regret it....
Posted by PalMD at 4:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Vendetta!
Category: Absurd medical claims
The time is now. The gauntlet of idiocy rests at our feet. Shall we turn and walk away, or shall we bend down, pick it up, and accept the challenge? What? What's that you say? Turn from the forces of...
Posted by PalMD at 1:22 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2009
I get mail!
Category: Absurd medical claims
Pursuant to my policies, I am reprinting an email, with identifying details redacted. I thought it would make for a nice conversation. A few comments first. The tone and intent of the letter is, I would say, very nice. The...
Posted by PalMD at 1:53 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I moved the over-the-top profanity below the fold
Category: Absurd medical claims
Here at ScienceBlogs we have a (very) informal agreement to try to avoid profanity-laden titles. Personally, they don't bother me at all, but I can see the point---there are lots of folks who probably don't want their feed reader to...
Posted by PalMD at 7:50 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2009
Michelle Bachmann, I demand you answer this question!
Category: Absurd religious wingnutery
Minnesota's dimwitted gift to humanity, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R--but did you have to ask?) had this to say regarding swine flu (H/T Steph Z): I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke...
Posted by PalMD at 8:44 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Swine flu, altmed inanity, HuffPo, and other randomness
Category: Absurd medical claims
We have a lot to cover today, but first things first: the Big Question. If you'll cast your memory way back (thanks, Van) you'll remember that a good question to ask altmed followers is the one of abandonment: what would...
Posted by PalMD at 8:57 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2009
Swine flu update---there's a lot we don't know
Category: Medicine
I tuned into a CDC conference call this afternoon. It was interesting. As is often the case with emerging diseases, what we don't know vastly outweighs what we do. For the best public health information in the blogosphere, and the...
Posted by PalMD at 5:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Live tweet CDC clinician swineflu conference call
Category: Medicine
It's going live shortly, the wifi gods willing. Conference here. Tweet at http://twitter.com/palmd...
Posted by PalMD at 1:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Previous
Next
