A collection of 6 posts
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.
The placebo effect is real. It’s measurable. It’s why we have placebo trials in medical research—because the hope buried inside that sugar pill has a measurable medical benefit. Hope is literally medicine, and it’s powerful stuff.
One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium.