 I’ll bet some of you regular Doc Gurley readers already guessed that we’d be handing out a BOGUS Award to that widely-publicized example of deeply flawed research–the study stating that you can tell if someone’s into love or lust, purely from their facial features. Slut or not? – just look at the width of her eyes. Yes siree, folks, this study joins those august embarrassing fields of pseudo-science – phrenology and eugenics – where claims were made in earlier centuries about what “data” you could get from face/head features. Bizarre indicators, from the bumps on your noggin, to racist descriptions about the width of your nostrils, were claimed to be clear indicators of such “obvious” things as intelligence and stamina.
But maybe you’re asking yourself, how could a study be that bad if even Scientific American covered it? Continue reading Bogus Sluts
 In hospitals, if you’ve gotten a patient all better and discharged them, only to find your patient back in the emergency room in less than 72 hours, that scenario is called a bounce-back. Bounce-back is a word that carries a lot of negative connotation–when you say it, you kind of sneer it at someone [...]
 In a stunning public development, male researchers have announced that macaque monkeys “pay” for sex. Ah, many of you are thinking, this ought to be interesting. You can imagine the questions: Do boy and girl monkeys pay the same way, in the same amounts? Do these monkeys pay for sex with gourds, or berries, [...]
Our latest Bogus Award winner is a real doozy, folks. What would you do if you got fired from a job, and then received a valid insurance card in the mail, with your name on it? But wait–what if you got that card, and you had ovarian cancer and multiple sclerosis and spinal problems? Would you, knowing your life depended on it, take the card, with shaking hands, to the hospital and sign up for a doctor, hoping against all hope that no one would cut you off before maybe you could get something done–before you died? And then, what if they kept making the mistake and never cut you off–the job that fired you kept paying your premiums, and the insurance company kept paying the hospital bills, and you got treatment, all the treatment you hoped for and you lay awake at night, thanking God for this miracle that added up to $230,000 of life-saving care? Continue reading BOGUS Benefits
 A Doc Gurley letter got paraphrased in the Daily Mail of London about the most recent bogus award recipient–check it out.
 There was alarmist news in the Daily Mail this weekend. Specifically, that the human race would split into two distinct species within the next 3,000 years, a prediction by “evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak [...]
The Doc Gurley BOGUS Award is traditionally given to a Bonehead, Overhyped, Groundless, Unverified Study. This week, however, we’re awarding a special Bogus Award, to a case in the news of supremely flawed reasoning. Our BOGUS award this week is given for Bombastic Obfuscating and Grandstanding Under Scrutiny. The winner is America’s CIA chief, Michael Hayden.
Director Hayden was in the news because he was asked to explain the CIA’s new practice of snatching a person walking down the street, and then, without evidence, warrant, police, judge, or jury involvement, secretly shoving that person onto a plane, flying them captive to the other side of the world and then leaving them—without a trace—as a prisoner in a foreign state. Apparently, the parting words “Here, do what you want with him, and, please, take your time,” is believed to be part of the process. Continue reading A Special BOGUS Award
Congratulations! The winner of this week’s BOGUS (Bonehead Overblown Groundless Unverified Study) Award is (drum roll please)…
Stressed-Out Moms Carry Babies on the Right
Okay, let’s get a few things straight, right up front. First, carrying your kids “on the right” is not about politics. Second, what mom is not stressed out? Third, how many of you moms read that and immediately started worrying about how you carry your kid? Raise your (left? right?) hands please. Continue reading Our First Bogus Award
You Know That Mothers with Babies are Stressed Out If–
1) She smells of Eau de Week-Old Spit-up with just a small, insouciant hint of B.O.
2) She has tremors that could put a withdrawing alcoholic to shame, due to the eight daily espresso shots she’s using to compensate for twelve weeks of no sleep Continue reading Doc Gurley’s Subtle Signs of Maternal Stress
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About The Author  Doc Gurley is a Board-certified Internist physician and the only Harvard Medical School graduate to have been awarded a Shoney’s Ten-Step Pin for documented excellence in waitressing. Find out more.Doc Gurley Library of Medeos
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