February 10 – 14
In the wake of this week’s mammogram research, Christie said it’s no longer a question that increasing the number of cancers detected is the wrong objective: “we should be aiming to save lives, not create as many cancer patients as we possibly can“.
Cassie looked back on scientists acting as their own guinea pigs, and found Jonas Salk’s vaccine test especially shocking.
When guest poster Jennifer Holland found no clear explanation for every twinge and pang of aging, she also discovered that trying too hard to find one takes you to a very dark place.
Jessa mourned the drowning loons.
And Richard told us what Galileo had in common with the Beatles.