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BOGUS Happy Sperm

June 29, 2009 – 5:13 am

In the journal of Make Sh*t Up…oh, wait, I mean the Journal of Bioscience Hypotheses…an author throws out an idea (completely divorced from any reality) and then the news  – specifically LiveScience and Fox News – report it as scientific fact.  This latest pseudo-science reporting is so BOGUS, it almost makes those of us here [...]

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Giggling Gorillas, Chuckling Chimps

June 7, 2009 – 12:40 pm

There were several neat articles this week about whether or not animals actually laugh. I got a real charge out of it – the idea that chimps chuckle when tickled, that even gorillas can guffaw – and then we got to the part where a cat’s purr is called a laugh, plus the claim that [...]

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What A Boob

March 23, 2009 – 10:48 am

We here at Doc Gurley were hoping, like most people, to just ignore the latest, clearly BOGUS pseudo-science news.
Unfortunately, such was not to be – the Atlantic article by a (self-described as rage-filled-about-the-act-of-breastfeeding) mom, who claims that – really – there’s no good data to support breastfeeding – just won’t die. Go on any

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Grand Rounds-Read All About It!

March 17, 2009 – 5:01 am

There are few organizations that have retained their good name and great works like the American College of Physicians

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has (ACP is the alternative to the AMA in many people’s books). With that same integrity, incisive style, and thoroughness, the ACP delivers a great Grand Rounds this week – all in (becoming [...]

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Baby Bogus

January 23, 2009 – 5:20 am

A New Year’s BOGUS has been born! (is it just me, or did that happen awfully fast?). And let me tell you, this

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one is a ten-pound whopper with a stinky diaper chock-full of…well, you get the idea. An “evolutionary biologist” published an actual paper asserting that the gender of [...]

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TeleMalpractice

January 11, 2009 – 5:56 am

In a story that has gotten surprisingly little media coverage, a doctor from

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Colorado will go on trial for the suicidal death of a 19-year-old Stanford student. Why should this story have gotten wider coverage? Because the Colorado doctor prescribed Prozac to the located-in-California 19-year-old, without ever seeing or talking to him, on behalf [...]

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Totally BOGUS

December 31, 2008 – 5:34 am

Ah, those end-of-year round-ups we all love and cherish…NOT. We here at Doc Gurley are not fans of the widespread New Year’s tradition of

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(probably auto-posted) re-hashing previous articles as filler-bytes. However sometimes a leftover is as good as a meal. Or even better. That’s the case with a year’s round-up of BOGUS awards. [...]

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BOGUS Bonanza!

December 6, 2008 – 5:56 am

Admit it. After a lull of several weeks, you thought we here at Doc Gurley had become softer, gentler, more tolerant of our fellow human’s capacity for healthnews BOGUS-ity. But noooo. Oh sure, while we’ve been waiting for a truly BOGUS bit of health reporting to appear, we did drop our guard and become more [...]

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BOGUS Sniffing for Sex

August 22, 2008 – 11:09 am

Yeah! A BOGUS Award winner here at Doc Gurley – this time for a Gold-Medal-Worthy triple jump of BOGUS assumptions. How big are these leaps? Let’s just say these could, in comparison, make the powerful Olympian from Cameroon look like she’s merely doing the bunny hop. Follow along, as we track a minor, small-study-result to [...]

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BOGUS Melons

July 9, 2008 – 8:09 am

Wow. It’s been so long since we’d seen a BOGUS Award recipient here at Doc Gurley, we were starting to wonder if something was up – had all the science writers in America gotten smarter? Were people stopping to think twice for fear of being outed here at Doc Gurley as truly BOGUS?
Nah.
Our lack-of-faith has [...]

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