Have Faith and Question Everything: Understanding QAnon's Allure

Question everything.

Advances through scientific endeavour have delivered many benefits to the human race and overall these benefits have outweighed any associated problems. Not uncommonly apparent improvements in our knowledge are eventually shown to be incorrect or misguided in the light of subsequent knowledge. This might arise because a different perspective was taken on a problem so that a new understanding wa...

Should Muslims have faith based health services?

The new nutrition: have a little faith.

hydrolysate, soy and conventional cow milk formulas on incidence of atopic disease in high risk infants. Annals of Allergy 1989; 63: 102–6. 4 Chandra R. Five-year follow-up of high risk infants with family history of allergy who were exclusively breastfed or fed partial whey hydrolysate, soy and conventional cow’s milk formulas. Journal of Pediatriatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 1997; 24: ...

Understanding Vaccination Programs (Timing is Everything)

Vaccination of your lambs and ewes is one of the more common, yet least understood health management practices performed by Michigan sheep producers each year. In talking with producers it is obvious that some producers vaccinate their flock for “everything”, while others choose a more conservative approach to immunology. However, regardless of your conservative or radical approach to vaccinati...

A question of faith--or the philosophy of RNA controls.

As an editor, referee, and mostly as an author having to contend with other referees, the problem of controls in determinations of specific mRNA, whether measured by northern-, or in situ hybridization, or by some other technique, is perpetual. I know of few other issues in science which appear to encourage more dogmatic outbursts. In what follows, I should like to take a definitely personal vi...