Category Archives: Science and the scientific method

Coffee Break: Science and Belief, Working AI, ADHD Update, and Research Support

Part the First: When Science Becomes a Matter of Belief Things Go Sideways.  The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is getting his way.  This is not a surprise.  The President hired him to “go wild on health” and he is doing just that.  Some have complained that as Secretary of HHS that RFKJr […]

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Coffee Break: CDC – Vaccines – Autism, Oh, My!; Wellness; Prioritized Science; Very Ancient Art; and MAGA

Part the First: CDC Finally “Decides” that Vaccines Cause Autism.  In news that will surprise absolute nobody, while pleasing some and causing despair in others, CDC says the mountains of data that show vaccines do NOT cause autism is not evidence-based: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday publicly reversed its stance that […]

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Coffee Break: Wither Sport, Unwellness, Chimpanzee Metacognition, The Sokal Hoax, and a Political Temblor

Part the First: Wither Sport in This Modern World? The World Series ended last week with two games for the ages.  These were the only MLB baseball games I watched all season, and as a baseball man of the old school, I picked well.  Both games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue […]

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Coffee Break: Politics and Science and Politics, a Coral Catastrophe, Mamdani, and the New ICE Age

Part the First: Politics and Science.  It will be s surprise to no one that autism is somewhere nearby: Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work.  The inquiry came in August and struck scientists at the Food and Drug Administration as highly unusual.  The leader of the center that regulates […]

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Coffee Break: Genes and Disease, Workslop Passing for Science, Nobel News, a Labor Party in the US, and Our Sick Politics

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The Illnesses of Basic Biomedical Science, Continued: Scientific Publishing

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Coffee Break: Vaccines Continued, Ancient Art, Renewables, Ignis Fatuus Explained, Good Sleep, and Jane Goodall

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Coffee Break: Autism, Universities, Gene Therapy for HD That Works, More Anti-Vax Nonsense, and Making America Greater, or Not.

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