After several guest posts, Dr. Saunders and some other Ordinary Gentlemen have decided to make an honest woman out of me and make me a co-blogger on Blinded Trials. I’m honored! A bit about me and my interests. If anyone… Continue Reading
Let me start with a disclaimer. I don’t pretend to be any kind of football fan. I find the rules baffling and the sport itself too reliant on brute strength to be particularly interesting. I have no basis for evaluating… Continue Reading
As I said not so long ago, I blog under a pseudonym so I can be a little bit more honest about places where I work or have worked. However, there’s honesty and then there’s imprudence. Thus, even though it’s… Continue Reading
Guest Post by Rose Woodhouse Nothing seems to piss off most scientists more than when an uninformed non-scientist makes wrong-headed scientific claims. For example, Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine rants have been known to give scientists the vapors. Allow me to say to scientists, then:… Continue Reading
Let’s say you have a favorite sandwich at a coffee shop close to where you live or work. Nothing fancy or high-end, just a simple meal you enjoy every so often that they make just right. A reuben, let’s say.… Continue Reading
[This is the latest guest post by my friend and occasional contributor Rose Woodhouse. I am hoping to get her added as a full-fledged author here, and am thrilled that she’s agreed to write from time to time.] by Rose… Continue Reading
Mixed into the jumbled bouillabaisse of our current healthcare system (from which I decided to elide the scare quotes) is the seemingly beneficent concept of quality improvement. This two-word phrase has lots of different connotations, but for the purposes of… Continue Reading
In looking for this article about the arduous task of losing weight (which is now Thursday’s post topic), I came across an irritating little essay at the Well blog at the Times. In it, Dr. Danielle Ofri gripes about a… Continue Reading
If you were designing a facility to dispense a substance that has recently been legalized for medical use in your state, how would you do it? The legalization of this substance is a highly controversial, fraught issue, and much of… Continue Reading
Megan McArdle recently linked to a story in Slate about why Americans have stopped spanking. Perhaps one of these days I’ll write about corpoal punishment itself, but that’s not what I’m posting about today. I’d like to hone in on… Continue Reading