New Blood Pressure Guidelines Released–Not much

Nothing here but some noise.
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Dolphins at Risk

A small sample of Dolphins shows a high rate of disease. No particular disease, just–they’re sick.
Sorry boys, as a physician, I need to know more.
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Puncture Wars

I am sometimes an expert in medical situations where standard of care is the issue. I can always find out what the standard should be, by reviewing the reliable literature.
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Gee, Computers Aren't Magic?

Healthcare computing and the use of the electronic health record has been a difficult roll out.
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Union of Concerned (Junk) Scientists are Sponsors at AAAS Meet

Orwellian junk science outfits always get dressed up with nice names.
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Euthanasia for Children in Belgium

I have expressed my disapproval of the aggressive euthanasia programs because life is precious.
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Psych III Borderline Personalties and Junk Therapy

Jaffe provides another essay with insight on personality disorders. A nice job and well thought out.
Please do not underestimate the impact of personality disorders on family and societal discord.
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Psych II

DJ Jaffe is an advocate for mo’ better outpatient community psych programs.
Psych programs are fertile ground for some junk science concepts for sure.
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NY Psych Industry Pushing Something that's Crazy

I won’t go into too long a lecture about the stupidity of this proposal to close the NY State Psych Hospitals,
but someone in the psych industry needs to have his head examined.
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Stealin' from Climate Depot

You all probably know I get the Marc Morano/CFACT/climate depot listing of good papers on climate, usually every day.
So I go in and look and then re-post with an intro. I figure it’s ok because I am their friend and ally.
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Is Orwellian Speech a form of JunkScience?

When a word or concept is twisted or misused to deceive, is that Orwellian?
Junk Science is dishonesty in the business of intellectual inquiry that results in bad conclusions or policy decisions.
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Violence Increases on UK Campuses

Yesterday we were given an example of masked torch bearers invading the yard of a pipeline exec.
http://junkscience.com/2014/02/12/torches-and-pitchforks/
Today a report on extremist incidents increasing on UK Campuses.
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