Amanda Marcotte is taking the GOOD Magazine health challenge and she, like yours truly, has no patience for faux-naturalistic health tips that aren’t grounded in scientific evidence. Unfortunately, on day eight of the challenge she ran into just such a tip: Cord Jefferson surprised me by writing an anti-soap screed, sincehe recently wrote an evidence-based […]
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First, look at these job loss numbers: Now look at the uninsured rates in 2009 and 2010. The Affordable Care Act’s early provisions went into effect in 2010: More people are uninsured in 2010 than in 2009, but the 18-24 group is the exception to this rule. Kevin Drum argues that this is the result […]
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Since I spilled a bunch of ink on climate change and science denialists recently at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, I thought I might as well take on a few of the other big science vs. anti-science issues. For the right kind of skepticism, take James Randi on homeopathy. Randi has recently offered one million […]
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