Category Archives: Plink

Category Archives: Plink

Commentary, opinion, reaction.

The New Mammography Math: What’s Missing from this Equation?

By kathy | Published: December 15, 2009
The New York Times ran this somewhat smug discussion of the new mammography guidelines, in which the author suggests that women dismiss the guidelines because they are confused or overly emotional. Hmmmm. Hard Truth + Silly Women = Hysteria. Where have I heard that argument before? Oh yeah, all of human history — [...]
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Case Study: Nanoparticles and DNA damage

By kathy | Published: November 10, 2009
While I was working on the previous post (introducing the you-are-not-goo tool), I ran across a textbook case study for Tool #1, and a reminder of how useful this one simple rule can be. ABC News (the Australian Broadcasting Company) online ran an article reporting on an experiment involving nano-sized metals (like the type commonly [...]
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Does Whole Foods Cause Cancer?

By kathy | Published: October 26, 2009
What do you get when you cross Marie Antoinette with a natural food conglomerate? If you guessed an out-of-touch tofu tycoon spouting “Let them eat organic beets,” you win! Earlier this summer Whole Foods CEO John Mackey came out with a pompous polemic on health care reform, complete with his very own epidemiological theories. If you’re [...]
Also posted in Health Care Reform | 2 Comments

The Dog Ate Megan McArdle’s Homework

By kathy | Published: October 25, 2009
One of the ugliest features of the health care debate, aside from the media’s willingness to spread unadulterated garbage (death panels, anyone?), is that otherwise smart, thoughtful people are weighing in with boatloads of nonsense. Catching up on my reading a few weeks ago I ran across this rambling and conclusory post by Megan McArdle, [...]
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