- The Burzynski Case discussed by Ben Williams in Surviving “Terminal” Cancer. Starts on page 186.
- Watching the Watchdogs at Quackwatch by Joel Kauffman
- The self-quantification movement: Implications for health-care professionals by Rajiv Mehta
- This game might be good for measuring brain function. Play for ten minutes, note average score. Later version with leaderboard and music.
- Elsevier attempts to fend off the extreme challenge posed by open-access journals such as PLoS
I took an exercise-for-heart-patients class this week. While we cooled off afterwards we were addressed by a young dietician. When one chap challenged her about cholesterol in the diet she said the “recent” research showed that it didn’t matter; it was fat, and type of fat, in the diet that mattered. Some progress?
P.S. the same chap had a further interesting question – he invited her to look at the twenty or so patients in the class. “Only three of us are fat” he said; “what’s up?”.
P.P.S. “it was fat, and type of fat, in the diet that mattered” – meaning, of course, “mattered for the worse”.
The quackwatch article was a great read. Thanks.