Category: Commentary
Medical Science in 2024
What medical breakthrough are likely in the near future?
SBM in 2023
Some thoughts as we complete our 15th year of science-based medicine.
Adjectives
When a placebo is called 'powerful', what is meant? Nothing.
Ozone Therapy
Ozone therapy sits in the border zone between science and pseudoscience.
Placebo Effect Revisited
The New York Times and Ted Kaptchuk feed into more confusion about placebo effects.
Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
It's not as complicated as you may think.
Update on Dr. AI
Studies have found large language model AIs to have impressive medical knowledge, but they are not quite there yet.
Madonna !?!
Remembering the old days of Madonna, courting, and naloxone use.
Courage
If I were King of the Vaccines. Some thoughts on influenza vaccine, hospitalization, death and courage.
More Unneeded Adjectives
This is going to be a mostly reference free blog entry. Mostly a rambling opinion about my biases and opinions about science. And you know what they say about opinions. I seem to fret an inordinate amount about adjectives. So often they do not belong in front of the nouns found here at the blog. I remain a touch annoyed at the...