There is so much bad health reporting out there that sometimes I forget that there are still some reporters out there who know how to do more than google. A recent issue of Forbes features a report by Mattew Herper about human papilloma virus as a cause for some head and neck cancers. It's written at a level most literate lay-people can understand, and doesn't mangle the science or depend on sensationalism.
A recent issue of wired (h/t Orac) features an article by Amy Wallace on the anti-vaccine movement---a must-read.
Kudos to you, Matthew and Amy
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Annette Edwards has a noble goal: to breed the world's biggest rabbit. It now appears that she has succeeded in her silly little dream of lagormorph gigantism with Amy.
Just a quick follow-up from our last two posts about Amy Wallace's article, "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All," in Wired magazine about vaccine developer Dr Paul
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Was just checking the old SiteMeter stats before foraging for dinner and saw a surge in search hits for "Amy Bishop."
Yup. Lo and behold she has been charged with murder - for the 1986 death of her brother.