January 28, 2007
The new edition of Pediatric Grand Rounds has just been published and has a uniquely fun theme as Dr. Clark Bartram takes readers on a fascinating journey into dreamland. The collection of pediatric articles looks at the scientific reality and debunks popular beliefs about children in this make-believe world, such as food intolerance explanations for general symptoms that lack medical diagnosis, the epidemic of food allergies, the association between ear infections and later developmental problems, heavy metals as causing autism, “poor excretors,” benefits of dietary manipulations in preventing or treating autism, and the labeling obesity and overweight in children. And there’s something about a talking twinky in a cowboy hat....
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Anti-quackery, Health Fraud and Critical Thinking on Science and Health
- Number Watch - Debunking misleading scary numbers
- * The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice by Gerard E. Dallal, Ph.D., Tufts University
- Nightingale Collaboration
- Science-Based Pharmacy
- Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) First
- Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD
- Social Issues Research Centre
- H2O.con - Water Pseudoscience and Quackery, chemist Dr. Stephen Lower
- Dihydrogen Monoxide Organization (understanding chemicals and internet science)
- Testing Treatments-Better Research For Better Healthcare
- Kentucky Council Against Health Fraud
- Skeptical OB, Dr. Amy Tuteur
- Naturopathic Diaries Science-Based Guide to Natural Health
Medicine, Medical Ethics and Policy Issues
- Cochrane Collaboration - Source for evidence in health care
- Cornwall Alliance
- E-Medicine clinical review articles
- Worst Pills-Best Pills-Prescription drug info from Public Citizen's Health Research Group
- FDA-drug safety information
- Therapeutics Initiative - scientific reviews of drugs approved in Canada
- Citizen's Council for Health Freedom
- FIRM: Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine
- Patient Privacy Rights
- National Bioethics Commission Archives
- Human Exceptionallism by Wesley J. Smith
- Bioethics Defense Fund
- Rebel.MD, The Voice of Hippocratic Medicine in America
- The Death of Humane Medicine and The Rise of Coercive Healthism by Petr Skrabanek
- Imposed Death, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
- Pro-life Healthcare Alliance
- Informed-A Guide for Critical Medical Decisions
- Two Decades to an American Culture of Death
- Illinois Family Institute
Critical Thinking on General Science, Energy, Education and Policy
- Bad Science Watch
- CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow)
- Warning Signs: Facts Not Fantasy, by Alan Caruba
- Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world — Copenhagen Consensus
- Power Line
- William M. Briggs, Statistician
- Daniel Horowitz
- JunkScience
- EAGnews.org, Education Action Group Foundation, by Kyle Olson
- Pioneer Institute, Public Policy Research
- Hillsdale College Imprimis
- Truth in American Education
- The College Fix
- GMO FAQS
- National Wind Watch
- Principia Scientific International
- Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts
- Carbon Sense Coalition
Food Science, Production, Safety, and Policy
- Food Safety A to Z
- Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
- America's Farmers
- Farms.com
- Fight Bac-Food safety education
- International Atomic Energy Agency (Food Irradiation, Nuclear safety)
- Egg Nutrition Center - Research and education
- Ocean Trust - Peer-reviewed science on sustainability of fisheries
- Positive Aquaculture Awareness
- Salmon Farm Science
- NOAA FishWatch.gov
Alternative General News Sources
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- Salem Radio News Network
- Zero Hedge
- Liberty Daily
- American Thinker
- Breitbart
- Lockdown Skeptics
- Off Guardian
- Freedom Advocates
Junkfood Science Bariatric Series
- Special: Bariatric surgery — the most life-altering decision you'll ever make
- Unprecedented campaign to force insurers to cover bariatric procedures
- When scares become deadly — weighing the actual risks of dying of obesity
- Selling an elective surgery
- Why we never hear, why people don't talk and why people don't want to know...
- Rumor versus facts
- Note from Dani
- Losing more than expected
- Was this really proof that bariatric surgeries save lives?
- The latest research on actual deaths seen after surgery for weight loss
- Show Biz Medicine (bariatrics in teens)
- The other side of the story Part one, Part Two
- Is bariatric surgery really a cure for sleep apnea?
- No evidence that bariatric surgeries save healthcare costs or save lives
- Surgery is not for two (pregnancy after bariatric surgery
- Chocolate Cake
- Bariatric surgery for diabetic teens — in their best interests?
Junkfood Science Obesity Paradox Series
- Say it isn't so
- Obesity Paradox #1
- Obesity Paradox #2 — How can it be a disease if it has health benefits?
- Obesity Paradox #3
- Obesity Paradox #4
- A Baby Paradox
- Big Bad Bones
- When does it stop becoming a paradox?
- Reading in the dark will make you go blind?
- Obesity Paradox #9 — Fat on the brain
- News women can use
- When fat (dare I say it?) is a good thing
- It’s better to die of HIV than be fat?
- Obesity Paradox #13—Take heart
- Obesity Paradox #14-Critical Illness
- Obesity Paradox #15 — No need to stroke out
- Obesity Paradox #16 - Two for One
- Obesity Paradox #17 — Fat and risks for premature babies
- JFS Special Report: Obesity Statisticulation
- Paradoxes Compel Us to Think (& Fitness Paradox)
- Paradoxes Compel Us to Think part 2 (& Weight Loss Paradox)
- Does it really matter how your numbers measure up?
- Figure Flaw Paradox: Does it really matter how your body measures up? Part 2
- Even obesity paradoxes can't "excuse" fatness
Body Weight Issues and Resources
- Spiked-Online obesity articles
- Fat Friendly Health Professionals
- Seatbelts for Larger Passengers
- Health Products for Large People
- Men in Full - Their generous form in art and experience
- Talk to Kids about Body Image
- The Plus-Size Pregnancy Website
- Andrea's Voice Foundation - Disordered Eating and Related Issues
- Eating Difficulties Education Network (EDEN)
- ANAD-Facts about eating disorders
- I was a fat kid...and this is my story
- A Place at the Table - memorial for those who've died from size prejudice
- OSSG Gone Wrong: Information and support for bariatric surgery complications
Blogroll
- Dr. Wes
- Retired Doc's Thoughts
- Neurologica by Dr. Steven Novella
- Eco Mythsmith
- Mike's Eyes
- Scientific Misconduct
- Liberty Papers
- Dr. Helen
- DC's Improbable Science
- Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
- Privacy International
- The Reference Frame
Classics-Oldies but goodies
- The Emperor's New Crisis
- Better to die young than get fat
- Bon Appetit
- Father Knows Best
- Please Pass the cake
- What the researchers didn't find
- Loopy Links
- Hey Feds, weight a minute
- To Panic or Not to Panic - Farmed Salmon: Anatomy of a False Scare
Good books
- Junkscience Judo by Steve Milloy
- Epidemiologists — Have they got scares for you! by John Brignell
- Never Too Thin: Why Women Are at War With Their Bodies by Roberta Pollack Seid
- The Dieter’s Dilemma by William Bennett and Joel Gurin
- Health Food Junkies by Steven Bratman
- Ominous Paralells by Leonard Peikoff
- Liberty and Tyranny by Mark Levin
- The Last Well Person by Nortin Hadler
- Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle by Michael Fitzpatrick
- War Against the Weak by Edwin Black
- The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Dr. Robert Jay Lifton
- The Great Cholesterol Con— The truth about what really causes heart disease by Malcolm Kendrick
- The Vitamin Pushers—How the “health food” industry is selling America a bill of goods by Stephen Barrett and Victor Herbert
- How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff
- Worst Pills, Best Pills by Sidney M. Wolfe etal.
- Panic Nation by Stanley Feldman and Vincent Marks
- Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan
- Dumbth—The lost art of thinking by Steve Allen
- Real Kids Come in All Sizes by Kathy Krater
- Rethinking Obesity: An Alternative View of Its Health Implications by Paul Ernsberger and Paul Haskew
- The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America by Charisse Goodman
- Tipping the Scales of Justice—Fighting Weight Based Discrimination by Sondra Solovay
- The Body Project—An intimate history of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- Chemical Sensitivity— The truth about environmental illness by Stephen Barrett and Ronald Gots
- The Truth about Organic Foods by Alex Avery
- Fat!So? Because You Don't Have to Apologize For Your Size by Marilyn Wann
- Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry by Laura Fraser
- Taking up Space by Pattie Thomas
- Fat is Contagious: How Sitting Next to a Fat Person Can Make YOU Fat by Kimberly Brittingham
- The Saggy Baggy Elephant - Golden Books
- I Like Me by Nancy Carlson
- Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff
- Snake Oil Medicine by R. Barker Bausell
- Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
- Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu by Philip Alcabes
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