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Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Independent discovery of nose-clipping? Nasal soft strips reduce appetite, according to an infomercial.
Does it matter how you take Vitamin D? A little bit of research.
Hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood) after patient takes 5500 IU/day Vitamin D3 plus 2000 mg/day calcium.
Fat Chef. A new TV show on the Food Network. Chefs try to lose weight.
Kickstarter project: Restaurant guide to San Francisco on a map folded in a new way.
The acne-diet connection. Dermatologists — the supposed experts — continue to say they aren’t connected.

Thanks to Anne Weiss, Phil Alexander and Dave Lull.

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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Thanks to Aaron Blaisdell, Alex Chernavsky and Navanit Arakeri.

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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Drug industry now the biggest defrauder of the US government, as measured by False Claims Act payments.
CT scans linked with cancer. Even worse, “doses of radiation from the scans varied wildly, according to the study, even within the same procedure at the same hospital. Some patients got only one-tenth the radiation that others got.” As if the concepts of calibration and maintenance are foreign to the operators of this exceedingly dangerous equipment.
Fermentation in Montreal.
Edward Jay Epstein on Hollywood’s Pirates of the Internet.

Thanks to Hal Pashler and Anne Weiss.

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Saturday, January 14th, 2012

One of my Tsinghua American colleagues writes an op-ed: “China wants you. Job prospects are abundant.”
Robert Anton Wilson’s skepticism about skeptics. “Those people claim to be rationalists, but they’re governed by such a heavy body of taboos. They’re so fearful, and so hostile, and so narrow, and frightened, and uptight and dogmatic. . . . None of them ever says anything skeptical about the AMA, or about anything in establishment science or any entrenched dogma.” I agree. They should be called one-way skeptics.
Excellent Vanity Fair article about Occupy Wall Street. Better than The New Yorker‘s article covering similar stuff.
The many side effects of statins. I am impressed by the new way of learning about drug side effects.

Thanks to Ryan Holiday and Gary Wolf.

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Thursday, January 12th, 2012

In this short video about self-tracking and Crohn’s Disease, “tension” between doctor and patient (“Ari is a sensitive person. He let me know that he respected my knowledge and experience,” says Ari’s doctor, presumably in response to a question) receives more attention than the treatments Ari tried.
Nature — the most prestigious scientific magazine in the world — makes a climate scientist look better than he actually is. “Nature suppressed [Phil] Jones’ candid admission that he simply didn’t see why he should provide [climate] data to people that wanted to criticize him and substituted a fabricated explanation.”
A talk critical of research universities, such as Berkeley. He criticizes careerism, for example.
Melissa McEwen explains how SCD (the Specific Carbohydrate Diet) — very useful against Crohn’s disease and similar problems — can be improved. Via Perfect Health Diet.

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