Debunking the Myth of Value-Neutral Virginity: Toward Truth in Scientific Advertising

Debunking the Myth of Value-Neutral Virginity: Toward Truth in Scientific Advertising

The scientific community often portrays science as a value-neutral enterprise that crisply demarcates facts from personal value judgments. We argue that this depiction is unrealistic and important to correct because science serves an important knowledge generation function in all modern societies. Policymakers often turn to scientists for sound advice, and it is important for the wellbeing of s...

Debunking the first myth about debunking

Debunking the first myth about debunking

Debunking the myth of the periosteum.

The foundations of Orthopaedics are a great deal better supported with evidence today than previously. Nonetheless, superstitions and myths have not completely disappeared. One of them is the role of the periosteum in fracture healing. The anatomy and physiology of the periosteum under normal circumstances have been studied for many a decades, and its role in the growth and development of tubul...

Autism and childhood vaccinations: debunking the myth.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 82, Number 6 ◆ September 15, 2010 For more information on EBM terms, see the EBM Toolkit at http://www. aafp.org/afp/ebmtoolkit. Are childhood vaccinations associated with subsequent development of autism? Bob: In 1998, a British gastroenterologist, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, published a report in the Lancet on eight children who developed symptoms of autism within one month ...