New Scientist this week published an interview with infamous psychiatrist Simon Wessely. Wessely persists in believing, in the face of all the evidence, that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalitis (CFS/ME)* is a uniquely UK/American psychological condition caused by internet-triggered “faulty illness… Read More ›
Science
Pain trouble-shooting
Some days, I need this handy Pain Troubleshooting Guide. Today is one of those days. In other news:
Disgusting
Demotivator made by moi. Feel free to download and share from the Flickr page (click on the pic). Backstory in The Guardian.
For the benefit of those on Feed Readers
If you can’t access the blog you should still be able to read this. (If you’re seeing this on the blog, you’re not experiencing the problem this techy bugfix post is addressing, so please feel free to ignore.)
I’ve just installed Bad Behavior to combat spammers. Very occasionally it blocks legitimate users as well,
More confected fat-baby epidemic panic? The “increasing trend” that isn’t.
This supposed ongoing upward trend in birthweight has been used as an excuse for absurd levels of inductions of labour and skyrocketing C sections, and a springboard for blaming lazy, old, fat, neglectful mothers for the “obesity epidemic”, childhood cancer,… Read More ›
Upgrading time again
Okay, I’m about to do a few upgrade things with the blog. I’ll aim to get them done quickly and easily without mucking too many things up, but who knows?
It’s still the 14th somewhere, right?
I meant to post this yesterday. I did at least discuss it with my beloved. Did any reader do/make anything special to mark Pi Day? The video below has no direct relation to Pi Day, but the poem was written… Read More ›
Alcohol and Breastfeeding: NHMRC buys into abstinence-only messaging
Last month, I started talking a little bit about alcohol, pregnancy, and abstinence-only messages, in a takedown of one particular study which failed to link alcohol and preterm birth, but said it did. “Bad science on booze in pregnancy: Women… Read More ›
For the stats geeks: Correlation
Don’t forget to hover your mouse over the image until Rand’s metacomment shows up.
G’day to the quake zone
There’s just been an earthquake in Melbourne. Twitter has exploded; Google News is yet silent. Nothing on USGS yet; and the Aussie Seismology Research Centre is inaccessible. (Broken, or quake-dotted?) I hope our Melburnian Hoydens are all ok. I blame… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 