Archive for the 'Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)' Category

Post from Jennie M.: The Great Baby Bottle Scare of 2008

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I’ve always been a skeptical person, even as a child. When my Dad explained the idea of Santa Claus to me, I pointed out that we didn’t have a fireplace for Santa to enter. Then I did some research and compared my Dad’s handwriting to the sample Santa left next to the cookies, and that [...]

Really, it’s not the vaccine…

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Two weeks ago, the New York Times published an article called “Debunking an Autism Theory”, which traced the history of the purported link between autism and the mumps, measles, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. It was great timing for me, because I was teaching about the scientific method in one of my classes, mainly comprised of [...]

Post #2 Electric Boogaloo or Why I Trust My Doctor

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I’m not pregnant yet and my husband and I have been trying for a while, which is pretty fun, but we recently went to a doctor to help things along a bit. (That’s a subject for another post.) When I mentioned to a friend of mine that that we are going to need a little [...]

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