Debunking the taxation–contraband tobacco myth

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 ...

OH cleavage from tyrosine: debunking a myth

During macromolecular X-ray crystallography experiments, protein crystals held at 100 K have been widely reported to exhibit reproducible bond scission events at doses on the order of several MGy. With the objective to mitigate the impact of radiation damage events on valid structure determination, it is essential to correctly understand the radiation chemistry mechanisms at play. OH-cleavage f...