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A critical but not cynical view of science and evidence

Mar 14, 2021

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Soft thinking is a like a contagious disease. If you don’t treat it early, it will spread to the masses and become endemic. Almost every day, I ask…

Mar 19

Some background on how I have adopted a skeptical but not cynical approach to medicine.

Mar 12

I have sometimes been called a contrarian. This can be both a positive and negative label. The positive is that, sometimes, the contrarian view turns…

Mar 1

A recent report on incidental findings from a cardiac monitoring study bolsters my view that modernity is shredding our health. The paper is a…

Feb 19

Progress in cardiology has plateaued in recent years. A small single-center study involving pacemakers may have just sparked the next big advance in…

Feb 12

Otis Brawley on US Healthcare in 2014

Dec 14, 2022

The pandemic teaches many lessons. Complexity of a single decision is surely one.

Dec 4, 2022

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