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How bacteria lasso new DNA

Fabulous graphics accompany a piece by Stephen Yin on the New York Times site June 14 Two bacteria...

CDC Doesn’t Understand Teens…

and neither do the editors of the New York Times. Consider this article by Jan Hoffman about a...

Dr. Marshall’s Downplayed Discovery

Today the existence and importance of microbes in the gut is well known. “The gut flora has...

‘Peer review is broken!’

So says Kevin McKernan of Medicinal Genomics. In a pitch to the deciders at DASH, a cyptocurrency...

CMCR hosts meeting on the future of MCR

“Cannabis and Health” was the stated theme of a conference held June 8 at the Center for Medicinal...

CO will let school nurses administer cannabis to kids

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed a bill that will enable school nurses to administer...

Project CBD Mocked Black Lives Matter

The editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer has apologized and resigned after running a front-page...

Spade’s Suicide Used for Sales Pitch

Super-salesman Doug Jacobs published the following opportunistic and duplicitous letter in the New...

Using Prisoners in Clinical Trials

It sounds so sensible in Gina Kolata’s June 4 New York Times piece… “A group of eminent researchers, including the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, has suggested a way to resolve science’s...

Author: Fred Gardner