September 5, 2025 — Drinking alcohol causes cancer – at least seven different types of it, says the Surgeon General. It can also cause a slew of other chronic diseases – liver disease, heart disease, dementia, diabetes, and obesity to name a few. So with this administration making a lot of noise about making America healthy and reducing the […]
May 31, 2025 — Artificial intelligence sometimes produces artificial information that has no connection to reality. The term of art for this phenomenon is AI hallucinations. This week we learned that at least some parts of the MAHA report might have sprung from such hallucinations. It listed references that don’t exist and conclusions for other references that were not […]
April 19, 2025 — This is an odd way of making America healthy. In fact, the recent, chaotic actions of the new administration seem destined to do precisely the opposite by slashing research and censoring scientists who labor long and hard to advance medical knowledge. A new letter in Lancet puts it bluntly: “In the setting of stalling life […]
February 19, 2025 — A new cancel culture is sweeping through science and research, censoring mentions of bad words under the new administration. The bad words relate to things like equity, bias, and diversity. Openness? Probably not a good thing to talk about if you don’t want your research funding flagged. This is a problem. Three researchers in pulmonary […]
February 23, 2023 — It’s interesting to watch people get riled up about the censorship of Roald Dahl. The Roald Dahl Story Company owns the rights to his books and has worked with Puffin Books to edit out offensive words so “Dahl’s wonderful stories and characters continue to be enjoyed by all children today.” In collaboration with Inclusive Minds, […]
May 10, 2022 — Cancer is not just exuberant cell growth. Nor is depression simply a matter of feeling sad. Likewise obesity is not a simple matter of living in a larger body. But cancer, depression, and obesity are medical words that can be daunting and also misused. And each of them can bring stigma to complicate any efforts […]
