Since I started this blog in April, I can’t count the number of times I’ve come across statements on other blogs like, “Epidemiology is just statistical manipulation of data.”  This usually comes from an anti-vaccinationist commenter who clearly has never even opened an introductory epidemiology textbook.
So I was happy to see the article in the […]

Okay, I’m back to blogging, slowly but surely.  Special thanks to Andrea, Anthony Cox, daedalus2u, and many others for your get well comments and e-mails.  Thanks also to Science Mom and TheProbe for sending me e-mails with great ideas for future posts.
Recently the DISCOVER Magazine blog, Reality Base, asked former U.S. Surgeon General (1982-9), C. Everett Koop, […]