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Harriet Hall, MD, The SkepDoc, discusses her column in O, The Oprah Magazine that focuses on debunking medical myths. She contrasts science-based medicine and “complementary and alternative medicine,” and tells why she objects to the latter term. She details why homeopathy elicits more moral...

Just wanted to point out that one of our own has published her memoirs as a female flight surgeon. I found it a great fun read and would recommend it highly. I had no idea that she had a book in print and picked it up at TAM6, and glad I did. Here is my review, I would love to see other...

This memoir follows a brilliant young woman through the difficult decisions we all must make, career, love, education and family. Harriet knew from an early age that she wanted to be a doctor, at that time female doctors were not unknown, just rare. Rarer still were female Air Force doctors...

This site was mentioned in the SWIFT commentary, but I think it's worth starting a thread on it here and introducing it to a wider audience. It appears to be one of the best sceptical ideas for some time - a website based on the use of actual science in medicine, written by a superb team of...

Marshall E. Deutsch, a member of the International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics, wrote an article in Skeptic magazine and spoke at TAM4 on this topic. I wrote a rebuttal in the following issue of Skeptic. I am skeptical about cholesterol too, and I agree with some of Deutsch's points, but I...