American Health Care vs. Socialized Medicine

Health care reform is the big debate in American politics right now, with the so-called public option being likened to European-style socialized medicine. That’s supposed to be a bad thing, I guess.
By the magical knowledge-bearing powers of the internet, I discovered some research which compares the United States with 18 other industrialized nations by the [...]

Brian Kilmeade on inter-species marriage and pure genes

What was Brian Kilmeade thinking? On the July 8 episode of the news program Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade responded to a recent Finnish-Swedish study which found evidence showing that marriage is beneficial to your mental health (British Medical Journal 2009;339:b2462). Kilmeade didn’t think the study had any relevance to marriages in America because [...]