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Bill Nye and Most Christians vs. Ken Ham and Creationism – Part I
Image credit. Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, debates a Ken Ham, a multimillionaire Creationist who makes his money selling Creationism as an alternative to science. This will...
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Bill Nye – Ken Ham ‘Debate’ Review
Click here to view the video on YouTube. Skip to 13:00 for the beginning of the debate. Is it impossible to be a scientist and a Young Earth Creationist? No, but good science did not come from the...
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Bill Nye and Most Christians vs. Ken Ham and Creationism – Part II
Continuing, on Darwin Day, from Part I about the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham about whether Creationism should be taught in science classrooms. Ken Ham’s Creationism is a religious belief...
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Alternative Medicine, Wishful Thinking, and Irresponsible Drug Pushers
Most emergency physicians avoid using homeopathy, acupuncture, Reiki, and other alternative medicine because there is no valid evidence that these treatments work, or because of they are not...
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Comment on Bill Nye and Most Christians vs. Ken Ham and Creationism – Part I
In reply to Bill Nye and Most Christians vs. Ken Ham and Creationism – Part I is the following from Jon – Part of the issue is that we are making science square off against religion. We? Don’t...
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$16M on EMS Stroke Trial? Dr. Rick Bukata Wants His Money Back!
FAST-MAG[1] actually has good methodology, so why is Dr. Rick Bukata so upset? Is this just USC vs. UCLA off the field/court? Should the hypothesis being tested have received the Queen for a Decade...
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Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update (ECCU) 2014 Conference – What Will We Get?
What should we expect from the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update (ECCU) 2014 Conference? The brochure suggests that the next version of the guidelines will be based more on science than the...
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Happy Darwin Day 2015
Charles Darwin is one of the greatest scientists of all time. We should celebrate the tremendous work that he has done, but it is considered politically incorrect to point out that evolution is real...
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The Difference Between a Scientist and a Normal Person
Randall Munroe (xkcd) demonstrates why he may be the poet laureate of science. We may avoid danger by superstitiously avoiding circumstances similar to those that surrounded something bad . . ....
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Apparent DNA Transfer by Paramedics Leads to Wrongful Imprisonment
Gloves on. Scene safe. We are taught to repeat that as if there is some connection between the two. If there is a violent patient on scene, will wearing gloves provide safety? Probably not. Gloves...
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Does Science Work? Is Science the Enemy? What About Spinal Immobilization?
Most of us are afraid of what we do not understand. Few understand science. Science gets blamed for everything or people make up nonsense about science and expect that they can get away with it....
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No More Comments on Popular Science
Why use Rush Limbaugh and his liberal twin, Michael Moore, as examples? Because these two are irresponsible in their presentation of information and they have a lot of gullible followers. Rush...
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Comment on ‘No More Comments on Popular Science’
In the comments to No More Comments on Popular Science is this from Duke Powell – Rogue Medic says Epinephrine is no good. I have been critical of epinephrine because we are routinely giving...
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You had me at ‘Controversial post for the week’– Part I
What kind of trouble would an Ambulance Chaser be up to? Time to stir up some controversy here. I would no longer require any resuscitation “card courses.” No more ACLS, CPR, or PALS.[1] The...
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You had me at ‘Controversial post for the week’– Part II
In Part I, I started to look at the kind of trouble that an Ambulance Chaser would be up to. Waveform capnography was one of the recommendations that the AHA (American Heart Association) has not...
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FAA Giving in to Science – Without Which the FAA Would Not Exist
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) is beginning to embrace science. By today, many of us should be permitted to use most electronic devices during all parts of an airplane flight. Airlines...
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Why Do We Have So Little Respect For Our Patients?
Informed consent should require that we provide our patients with honest information about the treatment we are pushing. Even implied consent assumes that an informed patient would make the decision...
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Happy Darwin Day 2016
Today is the 207th birthday of both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, two people who were condemned for their great works. One changed the way we treat other members of our species, while the...
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The Second EMS What-if-We’re-Wrong-a-Thon
Brandon Oto promoted The First EMS What-if-We’re-Wrong-a-Thon last year, but I was taking a break from blogging at the time, so I did not participate. The idea is to consider a position from the...
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When logic fails, throw propane on the fire?
Many of us have had discussions that became heated, because the other person would not see reason, we would not see reason, or neither of us would see reason. And that is if there are just two...
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