Blog entries by anciendaze
At the moment my present idea of exercise is more appropriate for playing with the family dog: "Sit up. Roll over. Play dead."
My Memorial Day...
It seems those of us who are so perverse we refuse to fit in convenient medical diagnostic categories with neat billing codes can't help but...
Here is another more personal post. It started out as a message for friends alarmed by reports they saw in the general press.
This has become a...
The following is from a letter written to explain this illness to someone well-intentioned but misinformed. I've tried to avoid the heavy use of...
We now have explicit evidence that a common retrovirus in cattle is transmitted to humans, and associated with lethal disease.
This falls short...
The Human Genome Project found essentially all of the "coding DNA" being transcribed into proteins back in 2003. The first draft of a human...
If knowledge itself is power, what results from profound ignorance? Whatever that is, I think it describes the way medicine has dealt with the...
This is a term in graphic arts for a trick that fools the eye, a deliberate optical illusion. Famous examples include recesses with statues, or...
What does it mean to improve public health? There are many measures based on what goes into the process, but fewer based on what results. Since...
If a tree falls in the woods, and a statistician declares this a random event, does it make a sound?
This question ran through my mind when I...
Note: this is actually a follow-up on my previous post The Sound of Silence. This was provoked by "expert opinions" on the Hornig/Lipkin study...
There have long been problems in reconstructing the history of China, because several dynasties went to some lengths to erase the history of...
I'll start with some lighter material which would get this deleted as off topic if this were not a blog. A little gentle humor is not misplaced...
A great deal of noise has been made over various things the authors of the PACE study have claimed in publications or spoken statements. What has...
The series of publications stemming from the PACE trial continues to roll on with the inevitability of a juggernaut or tumbrel. The venue for...
In The Reefs of Taprobane, Arthur C. Clarke recounted some underwater adventures he and Mike Wilson had exploring reefs around Sri Lanka. (He was...
Many years ago there was a strange joke going around among aeronautical engineers: "What's bigger than an ox, has square corners, and flies?"...
Earlier I discussed some parallels between Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus MPMV and beta retroviruses which cause mammary tumors in other species in my...