Matt Taylor and his shirt
I have a lot more to say about the furor over Matt Taylor’s shirt, but I don’t have time for a longer post at the moment, although I might write one later. But for now I’ll just say that I … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Science
Ebola treatment: this is so inside the box it’s outside the box
Could an older technique yield an effective ebola treatment? And will researchers take the suggestion and try to develop it, instead of a more conventional vaccine?: The proposal builds on the use of “convalescent serum,” or survivors’ blood, which has … Continue reading →
The PC crowd and academic freedom
One would think that Robert Oscar Lopez, “Latino child of lesbians” who is also bisexual himself, might be in with the PC crowd. But questioning some of the tenets of their narrative trumps even those identifying credentials. Mr. Lopez is … Continue reading →
Dr. Rick Sacra to Megyn Kelly: about those ebola patients without fevers
[NOTE: I’d like to get the following information to Megyn Kelly, so she can do some further investigating on this point. Just emailing her seems futile, because it will get lost in the shuffle. Any ideas?] Last night I watched … Continue reading →
Earliest satellite photos reveal a few things
Found—some old satellite photos with grainy images: Scientists have uncovered a cache of satellite images of Earth from the 1960s that had been forgotten in storage for nearly 50 years and that push back the first satellite images of our … Continue reading →
Squeaky wheel Kaci Hickox gets the grease: out of quarantine
Well, that didn’t last long: The New Jersey Department of Health issued a statement this morning that Hickox has been “symptom free for the last 24 hours,” and that it decided to discharge her after consulting with the Centers for … Continue reading →
The FDA, speed, and thalidomide
Articles like this one accuse the FDA of unnecessary slowness in approving diagnostic techniques, treatments, and vaccines: Pandemic vaccines and drugs don’t move through the FDA approval process faster. Instead, drug- and device-development times actually increased more than 70 percent … Continue reading →
Spain’s Ebola patient zero…
…is a nurse’s assistant. Unlike the accusations that have been leveled at Thomas Duncan, no one can say she kept mum about the fact that she’d been near an Ebola patient recently. That’s because she was on the team that … Continue reading →
The world is full of wonders: behold, the mosquito
I mean it: mosquitoes are astonishing. Until recently, all I knew about mosquitoes could be summed up as: hate the little buggers. They bite, and can cause malaria. But while researching the answer to Ymarsakar’s question the other day about … Continue reading →
First Ebola case diagnosed in the US
It was inevitable that it would happen: a traveler to the US from West Africa has been diagnosed as having Ebola, having begun to exhibit symptoms about four days after arriving in this country. He has been hospitalized in Dallas … Continue reading →
Autism and belief: Part II
[NOTE: Part I is here.] It turns out that the case of autistic 13-year-old author Naoki Higashida is more complex than that of Rom Houben. When I Googled his book (The Reason I Jump) online, I was expecting (hoping, anyway) … Continue reading →
Autism and belief: Part I
Back in 2009 I wrote a post called “Wanting to believe in miracles.” It was about the case of Rom Houben, a severely brain-damaged patient in Belgium who was said to be communicating complex thoughts through a method known as … Continue reading →