Hyperlipid

I'm just taking a quick break from packing boxes and trawling through hepatic insulin resistance related to metabolic syndrome because I...

An addendum to the mouse trans fat fibrosis paper : It's junk. Utter junk. Even the title is wrong. There are NO trans fats in the exper...

I generally ignored this paper in 2008 as it didn't look particularly interesting and seemed mostly about fast food bashing, where the ...

John Hawks put up this excellent quote in his post James Randi on scientists From Randi, J. 1988. "The detection of fraud and fakery....

OK, the biggest mistakes in A&A's 2006 paper was, in my book, Atkins bashing. There, I am biased. Citing the Atkins Diet specifical...

There might not be a lot of posts over the next few months. I'll get Axen and Axen (2) posted when I can!

Okay, the one without the chocolate all over their face is Ratty. He, Ratty, is 20 weeks old and weighs 360g. He is slim, active, well muscl...

Back comments section of the uric acid post _Flo passed on the news of the death, due to stomach cancer, of a prominent long term Optimal ...

It only needs a brief glance through the literature to realise that uric acid is a prime mover in metabolic syndrome and might reasonably co...

I would just like to paraphrase that relevant line from Futurama: What's the secret of Eternal Youth doing on a grapeskin? It was bound ...

I just thought I'd have a quick look (after viewing the PPT trawls) at the data trawls from WHEL in case they'd looked at the effect...

Another one liner in case you don't follow Jimmy Moore, the post on Dr Weil is very interesting from the political point of view. Very ...

While I'm trying to clear my desk top a little, with limited access to the net during an oncall weekend, I thought I might post this lin...

Chignola's group have been at WGA again. Their basic interest is (was?) in using WGA as a drug carrier aimed at certain cell surface sug...

For those who have failed to read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a little information about the Total Perspective Vortex is requir...

I've posted on Dr Peter Clifton in the past. He's in the news again. Here's the link to the Telegraph article from Blogblog pl...

Gifted by Gary! Peter

I don't know where to start with this. Let's begin with one of my all time favourite studies, the Polyp Prevention Trial , PPT. For ...

Very briefly because there's nothing here we don't know inside out, this is fighting talk. More along the lines of de Lorgeril but i...

"All right Mr Bender, before we enrol you in this clinical trial I need to be certain that you do not now, or ever have in the past, pa...