A s I've posted previously , I   have been recovering from multiple bypass heart surgery.  I had some angina, vague superficial chest p...

I t's off again, on again:  don't eat processed meat, don't eat red meat, or you'll get colon cancer!! Eat fish (well, unles...

B logs like this are venues for expressing views on the current scene, in our case, related to genetics, evolution and a few other things we...

L ast week we pointed out that the history of technology enabled larger and more extensive and exhaustive enumeration of genomic variation,...

C omplexity, confounding, heterogeneity: these are just a few of the issues that can and do play havoc with biomedical research where we att...

Breast cancer will affect roughly 13% of women in the western world who live to old age, a plague of terror and worry, even when it's ev...

Remember the big news just a few months ago about the declining incidence of dementia?  There was a story in the New York Times, and many o...

Why is it that after countless studies, we don't know whether to believe the latest hot-off-the-press pronouncement of risk factors, gen...

The  life, social, and evolutionary sciences have a problem.  We posted about the issue of their non-replicability last Friday but that is ...

A new report on cancer incidence and mortality in the UK, described on the Guardian website, suggests that 40% of cancers in women and 45% i...

Every day, it seems, the forces of biological simplism -- the hunger for, and vested interest in simple answers to complex questions -- suff...