鈥淧eople do not like their stretches to be criticized,鈥� wrote Paul Ingraham, a former massage therapist and current science journalist. I鈥檓 about to find out for myself.
Facts rarely get in the way of a good story. There is a foundational myth in placebo research that has been repeated over and over again, sometimes with inexplicable flourishes, often with the...
In the first episode of the television show The Resident, a nurse tells the young protagonist that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States after cancer and heart...
A few years ago, I found myself on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean. The weather conditions were dodgy, but our skipper decided to go ahead with the whale watching expedition. The first couple of...
What causes a disease? We saw this important medical question get raised during the pandemic. Some people refused to accept that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was causing COVID-19 because it failed to...
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many preexisting problems. One of them is how to vet the avalanche of information flowing down at us on a daily basis. Another is how to properly assess the risks...
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS is being misused by anti-vaxxers to terrify the public. It鈥檚 a shame because VAERS plays a vital role in detecting important but rare reactions...
As more and more people 鈥渄o their own research,鈥� some end up consulting a website called PubMed. An argument I have encountered is that if a scientific paper is listed on PubMed, it must mean this...
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