The Long Road to Medical ‘Miracles’
How decades of invisible science produced two cancer breakthroughs.
Henry I. Miller
· 9 min read
Cancer
A collection of 7 posts
How a UN Agency Misled the World on Cancer Risk
Nathan Schachtman’s indispensable new paper explains how the International Agency for Research on Cancer has misled the public with its classifications of carcinogens.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 11 min read
A Costly Misconception
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health
A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 20 min read
Masculinity, Emasculation, and Breast Cancer in Men
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.
Richard Wassersug
· 7 min read
She Did Not Go Gently
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.
B.J. Campbell
· 9 min read
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer
One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium.
Jonathan Church
· 12 min read