I never thought I would see the day where I would call a piece written by David Gorski (aka Orac — I guess it’s good form to associate the two now since he’s blogging under his true name at Science-Based Medicine) well-written. But here it is: his description on the difficulties of disentangling the effectiveness [...]
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In astrophysics, even. Good for him.
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Of late, my watching the evolution vs. intelligent design debate is like my watching Duke play Kentucky. (I’m a UNC alum, and have a genetic hatred for the two schools I mentioned. In such games, I lament the fact that someone gets to win. What can I say? It’s in my Carolina Blue blood.) On [...]
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And here’s how to reproduce the effects in the seeing. Technorati Tags: mind hacks
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Sweet. Any guesses as to which patent I searched for first?
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PhDComics shows us the “difference”:http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=761 between the scientific method and the actual method we use in research. Technorati Tags: science
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A few days ago, I wrote about a drug with “statisticially significant, but perhaps not clinically relevant, effect”:http://www.randomjohn.info/wordpress/2006/09/12/significance-statisticical-and-otherwise/. This is the benefit side of the risk-benefit ratio that the FDA tries to evaluate when deciding whether to approve a drug. The other side, of course, is the risk. The “Campath”:http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06091422.htm story illustrates this issue quite [...]
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The lowly “vole”:http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/rodents-bizarre-traits-deepen-mystery-of-genetics-evolution-11492.html is challenging our theories of genetics. Technorati Tags: genetics
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Atoms are not bound together as tightly as we once thought. Too much deuterium has been found; theory of universe is at risk. A fight breaks out over exactly what a planet is. Autism affects much more than social skills and communication. It looks like a lot of textbooks are about to become outdated. Technorati [...]
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How long before we see ads for Tide because our laundry didn’t come clean and a notice popped up on our toaster telling us that?
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