Assorted Links
- ALS patients test home-brewed drug themselves
- Vitamin K in American foods. I was surprised there is a lot more Vitamin K in chicken than other meats.
- Value of early exposure to microbes.
- 40+ years of mislabelled cell lines in cancer research. “Nearly 40 years later, Dr. Masters, in a study of scientific papers published between 2000 and 2004, found nearly 1,000 citations of the same contaminated cancer lines revealed in Dr. Gartler’s 1966 findings, which have since been replicated many times using more advanced techniques. “They are either crooks or stupid,” said Dr. Masters.”
Thanks to Peter Spero and Hal Pashler.
April 22nd, 2012 at 7:47 am
[...] saw a link to a WSJ article on ‘Do it Yourself ALS Treatment’ at Seth Roberts’ blog. The gist is that because the FDA (the fiendish bureaucracy which controls medicine in America) [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:45 am
Is there a way to read the cell line article free?