The Doctor Is In

Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits:
A quarter of a century after the outbreak of AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organizations may have been […]

Still trying to stay one step ahead of the snapping alligators, so here’s another older post, hopefully worth your time — Dr. Bob
 

Damn!, I hate these calls…
Lying on my desk, clipped to a yellow manila binder, is a single sheet of paper. Its pleasant color format and sampled photomicrograph belie the gravity of its content:
Adenocarcinoma, […]

 
White dogs can’t dance….

On forgiveness & race: An Open Letter to Senator Obama
Neuhaus on ‘The Speech’: quietly demolishing Obam Obama Dana: The Strange Ways of Black Folk
Watch out for customers with swinging watches: ‘Hypnotist’ thief hunted in Italy
Elephants in the living room: QandO on the Medicare and Social Security financial black hole. Let’s expand these […]

One of the features I enjoy on some of my favorite blogs is a periodic summary of interesting things they are reading. After all, if you enjoy reading a blog, and value their thoughts and insights, it makes sense that you might well be interested in the things they find interesting. And so, I will […]

It’s good to know that science is finally beginning to address larger questions of the meaning of life, rather than wasting time on trivial pursuits such as the origins of the universe. This epiphany came to me upon reading the following news release:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several species of ducks have evolved complicated genitals in what […]

The following essay was originally posted in June 2005. The story is a true one, although the names have been changed.
 
 
They say that hell is hot. Sometimes, though, it is very, very cold.
Jim loved Alaska–it had been his home since birth. God’s country: wild, unpredictable, spectacular in beauty–there was no place like it on earth. […]

This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:
 
 ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries
 

Do not move the ancient boundary stone set up   by your forefathers.
        – Proverbs 22:28 –
 
The societal trend evident today — the gradual and progressive shift from spirituality and faith-based life principles, to scientific secular rationalism, […]

I’ve recently referenced an excellent article on the huge gap between hype and reality with embryonic stem cell research (as opposed to the real and growing applications of adult stem cells), and Michael Fumento again points out the huge gap between myth and reality here (HT: Instapundit). Maybe the word is starting to get out […]