Letters to the Editor

  1. 19776

    Without a corresponding study of bone densities, it’s not possible to determine whether the link between proton-pump inhibitors and increased fractures in people over age 50 is due to increased numbers of falls (dizziness, etc.) or to bone damage. It would be extremely helpful to try to tease out the cause behind this linkage. Dan […]

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  2. Humans

    Letters from the January 6, 2007, issue of Science News

    Gone with the heat? “Feeling the heat of an extrasolar planet” (SN: 10/28/06, p. 285) made me wonder how long a gas planet is expected to survive when one of its faces is more than 1,000°C. The conventional model of our solar system assumes that gas planets can form and survive only in a cold […]

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  3. 19775

    The statement in the article that astronomers “don’t yet have” a probe to journey to the vicinity of a black hole is puzzling.