Vaccine Roundup
By Seanna Watson The first vaccine, a preventive treatment for smallpox, was developed in the late 1700s. Over the years, vaccines have revolutionized medicine, saving millions of lives . Yet in the…
Category: Science
Making sense of medical research reporting in the media
Dr. Michael Allen will cover the common types of health research methods that deal with therapies, and how that research is used to develop national guideline recommendations.
How the Climate Change Denial Movement is Funded
By Sandra Dunham While scientists have relentlessly researched and reported on the unmistakable impact of humans on climate change, an equally relentless counterargument has claimed that climate change does not…
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500 People Misrepresenting Climate Change
By Seanna Watson In late September, a group of 500 “prominent scientists and professionals” sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General declaring that there is no climate emergency . Several science groups…
Ultra-processed Food and Weight Gain
By Sandra Dunham Is there a topic more discussed than diet? Do you ever wonder what is true and what is not true? A recent study by the National Institutes…