As It Is A Major Component Of

I Write About Misuses Of Evidence In Plenty Of Different Spheres: Scaremongering Journalists, Obvious Quacks And Naturopaths, And Flaws In The Way That Evidence Is Used In Mainstream Academia, Medicine And In (government) Policy. One Of The Things I Always Found Interesting Is The Same Tricks Are Used To Distort Medicine In All Of Those Domains.

As It Is A Major Component Of Blood, Water Is Vital For Transporting Oxygen To The Brain. Heaven Forbid That Your Blood Should Dry Out.

I'd Like To Submit To Bad Science My Teacher Who Gave Us A Handout Which Says That 'water Is Best Absorbed By The Body When Provided In Frequent Small Amounts.' What I Want To Know Is This. If I Drink Too Much In One Go, Will It Leak Out Off My Arsehole Instead? Thank You. Anton.

There Is This Peculiar Blind Spot In The Culture Of Academic Medicine Around Whether Withholding Trial Results Is Research Misconduct. People Who Work In Any Industry Can Reinforce Each Others' Ideas About What Is Okay.

If You Put Me In Charge Of The Medical Research Budget, I Would Cancel All Primary Research, I Would Cancel All New Trials, For Just One Year, And I Would Spend The Money Exclusively On Making Sure That We Make The Best Possible Use Of The Clinical Evidence That We Already Have.