Harvard – Meat Causes Diabetes! Science – Harvard, Please Stick To Anti-Semitism
Harvard University, and its anti-science allies like The Guardian(1) paper in England, are again claiming that meat causes diabetes.read...
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Halloween Science: The Sugar Rush Is Fake But The Sugar Crash Hits Hard
If you are a parent, or know a parent, you have had someone claim that if their kid eats sugar they get 'hyperactive' - that may happen, but only because a child has been told they get hyperactive and act that they, the same way if you tell a child rum cake has rum they may act drunk.Biologically, it doesn't work that way. Sugar can certainly help you if you are diabetic(1) and "anti-sugar...
read moreTikTok Can Be More Than Just Harvesting Your Data For Chinese Spies
Controversial social media video site TikTok has one supporter - a public relations academic at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.A recent paper, ironically in a journal from a publisher that has also been called predatory, argues that TikTok may be effective for encouraging women to get a pap smear, which aids in early detection of cervical cancer, which kills some 4,000 women each year in...
read more#MedEd: How Well Doctors Use Social Media To Combat Misinformation
If you go to social media, you can see a lot of suspect claims about fad diets, unapproved medical devices, therapies, and conspiracy theories. Many of them have names with "Dr." attached.How is the public to know a "Dr." may be a PhD or an EdD or an osteropath or someone else who didn't go to medical school and become an M.D.? How should physicians respond? From the years 1998 to 2021, coastal...
read moreEpidemiology Fallout: Heart Attack Survivors Ignore LDL Cholesterol Risk Because Of Correlation Disrepute
The American Heart Association is concerned that stroke and heart attack survivors don't think enough about 'risk' of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol, now colloquially termed 'bad' cholesterol. read...
read moreBlack People Have More Premature Births – Cardiovascular Health Implicated
In 2019, nearly 12 percent of Black individuals experienced pre-term births compared with 7 percent of White individuals, according to a new demography paper.read...
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