Murkiness and wishful thinking about an emerging scientific subject can be spun into certainty. Where researchers are exploring the tenebrous depths of our nervous system with the equivalent of a...
The COVID-19 pandemic helped popularize a hair-raising phrase: 鈥渄o your own research.鈥� Portrayed as a call for self-empowerment, it became the tell-tale sign of someone who didn鈥檛 trust public...
If you have an interest in scientific research, you may have heard a weird term that sounds traumatizing from a urological perspective: p-hacking. Apparently, you鈥檝e read, some scientists use p...
Last September, we published an article I wrote on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), specifically on a French-language report commissioned by the Government of Quebec to understand the state of...
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...
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