John Tierney takes on Leon Kass.

Hey, if Kass wants to call me a “Scientist,” I’m OK with that. I’ll always take rationality over mysticism.

John Tierney takes on Leon Kass.

Hey, if Kass wants to call me a “Scientist,” I’m OK with that. I’ll always take rationality over mysticism.

John Tierney takes on Leon Kass.

Hey, if Kass wants to call me a “Scientist,” I’m OK with that. I’ll always take rationality over mysticism.

This post from Dr. Helen seems somehow relevant to this recent one by me, in terms of not bothering to read the whole paper (and in this case, not even necessarily understanding it, even if they did).

Listen to the IPCC, not Al Gore.

Brendon Loy has some thoughts.

Brendon Loy has some thoughts.

Brendon Loy has some thoughts.

Phil Bowermaster has an interesting interview with a researcher who think he may have one, that will start being tested in human subjects next year.

…through vibrators.

No, not that kind of vibrator. Get your mind out of the gutter:

Dr. Rubin, director of the Center for Biotechnology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is reporting that in mice, a simple treatment that does not involve drugs appears to be directing cells to turn into bone instead of fat.

All he does is put mice on a platform that buzzes at such a low frequency that some people cannot even feel it. The mice stand there for 15 minutes a day, five days a week. Afterward, they have 27 percent less fat than mice that did not stand on the platform