Here we go again. Mixing science with politics. We all know how well that works.
Yet, Paul Joseph Watson, writing on Infowars.com manages to do just this with a side order of chemical scares tossed in, and the result is predicable a big mess.

We have repeatedly discussed the problem of overdiagnosis and the consequences: treatment of cancers that would not harm the person in which they are found some breast and prostate cancers definitely fall into this category. A new study just published in JAMA Otolaryngology now extends this finding to thyroid cancer.

Each year, the CDC estimates the effectiveness of the current season s flu vaccine. They collected data from about 2300 children and adults in the U.S. Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network

Modern clinical research has turned to harnessing a patient s own immune system to block the proliferation of cancer cells. The

There has been confusion about the impact of obesity on health as people age, with some data even suggesting that obese folks might have an advantage in terms of longevity. Perhaps more important, however, might be the impact of obesity on older folks quality of life.

Dr. Josh Bloom on Science 2.0, February 19, 2014.
Wherever he is, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim a/k/a Paracelsus must be doing the Foxtrot in his grave. Because somehow a bunch of dopes have managed to correct something...[Read more].

Dr. Gilbert Ross op-ed in The Daily Caller, February 19, 2014.
The most important, devastating yet preventable public health problem in the western world is cigarette smoking. How bad is it? The W.H.O. predicts one billion lives cut short worldwide this century, if current trends continue. In America alone, the...[Read more].

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Notorious chemophobes proclaim a doubled risk of brain-damaging chemicals since 2006. Their evidence? Same as before: because they said so!

For years, various environmental and academic groups have been desperately trying to explain how it can be that high doses of chemicals (a common target: bisphenol-A, BPA), referred to as