Two-Oh-Friggin-Three! Yippee! (woulda been better without the damned brisket)

In case you didn’t know, Science Blogs is owned by a company called Seed Media Group. They invite bloggers, host them, give them tech support, and use their blogs to post ad content. And that’s it. Bloggers are offered small compensation based on blog hits, but for most bloggers, this ads up to very little.…

As my readers know, I take a very hard line on alternative medicine, not because I just don’t like it, but because it harms, both actively with dangerous treatments, and passively by keeping people from effective science-based treatments. So what am I to think about a hospital in California that is now allowing Hmong shamans…

Within 72 hours of starting kindergarten, my daughter caught a cold, and within 72 hours of that, she gave it to me. The common cold sucks. It affects millions of people every year causing misery and lost days of school and work. It’s terribly hard to prevent, and there aren’t really any effective treatments. Vitamin…

I started this little adventure on August 5th, and at the time my BMI was over 30 and I weighed about 212#. Today, it’s 203#. It’s an interesting journey. For the first time, I’ve found what seems like a sustainable way to eat healthy. I feel like I’m actually a good role model for my…

There has been a murmur (albeit an insane one) at many of the anti-Obama and anti-health care reform rallies about the Nazi “T4″ program, something most Americans have never heard of. The absurd analogy apparently goes like this: the Nazis euthanized undesirables, and the proposed health bill would effectively do the same thing, therefore Obama…