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Cancer

Parenthetically Speaking: Colons, Math and the New York Times

by pribut on December 21, 2008

Science, Numbers, Journalism and Critical Thinking
I believe it was on a Merlin Mann podcast, where someone jokingly mentioned the concept of an iColon website which in typical Web 2.0 fashion people could share the images and films of their colonoscopy procedures. This week the New York Times managed to demonstrate where their heads were at [...]

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Evidence Based Medicine vs. Sensationalism: NYT and Lymphoma

by pribut on July 14, 2007

Evidence Based Medicine vs. Sensationalism
The New York Times, today, in a fairly sensational manner, discusses Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and medications in vogue in reference to two medicines, including Zevalin, which at this time is used in cases of failure of other therapies. The accusastion being made is that physicians are not using Zevalin, a radioactive [...]

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