UK Food Standards Agency says: No evidence ‘organic’ is better

The British Food Standards Agency, set up in 2000 by the British government in order to protect the public’s health and consumer interests regarding food products, has published an extensive and independent review of the literature comparing conventional and ‘organic’ food. Their conclusion?

Like father, like son

Dr. William Sears prides himself on having two pediatrician sons to follow in his footsteps. It seems that Dr. Marc Weissbluth – author of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child – can now also boast a pediatrician son, Dan.
Dan Weissbluth has recently started a blog of his own here on WordPress dealing with infant [...]

Sanctimommy Sighting!

Dr. Amy over at the Skeptical OB has a great post about that rare (but unfortunately, not rare enough) creature, the Mater Sanctimonius, commonly known as The Sanctimommy. Amy describes her attributes far better than I could, so go over there and have a look…I’ll wait. .
I’ve come across some Sanctimommy [...]

So why do mainstream parents need support, anyway?

Some APers are incensed when they come across this blog. Not only for the AP heresies it espouses (OMG She thinks CIO is OK!!!), but because the idea that mainstream parents need, or more likely deserve, support for their parenting practices really irks them for some reason. This comment (culled from a mommyboard) is typical:
Thank [...]

Labor pains? They’re for your own good, dearie.

It takes a certain kind of chutzpah to say such a thing to a woman in labor. Doubly so when you happen to be male:

LLL dogma: still a barrier to properly informing women.

As you know, I’m not a huge vitamin pusher. However, I do realize the importance of supplementing babies’ diets – especially those of exclusively breastfed babies – with 400IU of vitamin D daily until the age of a year. I also pointed out, almost a year ago, that lactofanatic dogma – that breastmilk is perfect [...]

Heads up to Dr. Bob again…

Still think delaying the MMR is a great idea?
11 Measles Cases Reported In Brooklyn:

The Baloney Detection Kit

I’m not a huge fan of Dawkins, but I found this video from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, presented by Dr. Michael Shermer , an excellent primer to thinking critically about claims made by scientists – or pseudoscientists, as it were:

It’s a little long (almost 15 minutes), but [...]