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Science Societies Urge Education

The scientific community needs to be involved in promoting science education, including evolution.  So says the January issue of the FASEB Journal.  FASEB is the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.  Sixteen other organizations also signed on to the recommendation, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Institute of Physics.  The article notes that the introduction of nonscience, such as creationism and intelligent design, undermines fundamentals of science education—such as using the scientific method, understanding how to reach scientific consensus and telling scientific explanations for natural phenomena apart from nonscientific ones.

The article included a survey of a thousand likely US voters.  Those able to answer simple questions about plate tectonics, proper antibiotic use and prehistory were far more likely to support evolution education.  Said journal editor Gerald Weissman, “The bottom line is that the world is round, humans evolved from an extinct species, and Elvis is dead. This survey is a wake-up call for anyone who supports teaching information based on evidence rather than speculation or hope; people want to hear the truth, and they want to hear it from scientists.”

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Docs Make Fake Pills Real Meds

By now we’ve all heard about the placebo affect:­ just by thinking a pill will help cure what ails you, it often does. Well, it turns out doctors sometimes take advantage of the placebo affect. Yes, doctors ­ at least doctors in Chicago,­ occasionally purposely prescribe placebos. That’s according to a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Of 231 internists in Chicago who answered a survey, 45 percent say they’ve used placebos on occasion. The medicines of choice included antibiotics, vitamins, ibuprofen, and amounts of medication too small to be therapeutic.  All prescribed for situations in which those pills shouldn¹t have had an effect on the patient’s particular complaint.

About a third of the doctors told patients that the pills might help and certainly won’t hurt.  About 20 percent simply tell them that it’s medicine. So even though prescribing placebos remains controversial, clearly some docs are doing it. Decades ago, physicians prescribed placebos to distinguish who had a real problem and who was faking it. Today, they recognize the reality of the mind-body connection, and that placebos can sometimes be just what the doctor ordered.

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