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Listing ID: 1654
Title: Science-Based Medicine
Description: Sceptical doctors looking at the claims made by alternative practitioners.
Category: Health : Alternative Medicine
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listed on: August 21, 2008 05:34:08 PM
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Recent Posts:
| South Dakota’s Abortion Script: The Hijacking of Informed Consent - Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:24 +0000 |
| In a previous post, I suggested that informed consent could sometimes be misused. South Dakota has provided a clear example of such misuse and has set a frightening precedent reminiscent of Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984.A law went into effect in July, 2008, requiring that any woman seeking an abortion in South Dakota must [...] |
| Reality is unfair - Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:44:01 +0000 |
| This space has often hosted musings on the nature of scientific knowledge, on how medical science is based in methodological naturalism (MN), rather than supernaturalism. MN requires that our acquisition of knowledge about the natural world be based on natural phenomena. The reason for this should be quite obvious: the natural world is the only [...] |
| Christine Maggiore and Eliza Jane Scovill: Living and dying with HIV/AIDS denialism - Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:51 +0000 |
| On Science-Based Medicine, we strive to apply the light of science and reason on all manner of unscientific belief systems about medicine. For the most part, but by no means exclusively, we have concentrated on so-called “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) because there is an active movement to infiltrate faith-based, rather than science-based, modalities into [...] |