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The Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by a suburban, reality-based, slightly-left-of-center guy, who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times. Topics: social commentary, neuroscience, politics, science news. Mission: to develop connections between hard science and social science, using linear thinking and intuition; and to explore the relative merits of spontaneity vs. strategy.
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Category: Science in the Media
XKCD usually is pretty good; this one, however, is a brillant commentary on science journalism. People forget that once an event has happened, the probability of that event is exactly 1, and the probability of all other outcomes is exactly...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
Yes, this is old news. I've written about it before, as have numerous other progressive scientifically-oriented bloggers. But now that there is an opinion piece featured prominently in the New York Times, perhaps the issue is gaining momentum. Cows on...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
I guess Fox News is starting a series of vignettes, hoping to show that stimulus money is being wasted. In an early attempt, Hannity and Carlson track down an entomologist, at Michigan State University, who got a $200,000 grant from...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:58 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
At first, I was going to title this post WSJ: Incompetent Ranting. Then I decided that was too strong. Then I read the article again, and went back to the original title. Mind you, this is not intended to be...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:27 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
I've been mulling this over for a few days, finally deciding to write about it. There was an article in the NYT on 13 January 2010 about an NEJM article: Morphine May Help Traumatic Stress By BENEDICT CAREY Published: January...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:39 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bioethics
I couldn't resist that title, but I must admit it isn't mine; the author's post is here. This is about the NYT article about the finding that children on Medicaid are more likely to be prescribed antipsychotic medication, compared to...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:05 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued a press release: UCS Gives Obama High Marks on Scientific Integrity for First 100 Days. Granted, after suffering through eight years of the Bush II Administation, they'd probably give high marks to Pee...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
When I was at work today, I saw a headline that irritated me. I decided I would blog about it when I got home. But now the headline has been changed. I will still blog about it, though. The original...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
I chose three articles from this month's edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, upon which to comment. For those not familiar with it, Arch Gen Psychiatry is an AMA journal, like JAMA, but for psychiatrists. It's an influential journal....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
Welcome to the Lake Wobegon Scientific Society Journal, where all research studies are "authoritative", all scientists "experts", all findings "breakthroughs". Not to mention "above average". That happens to be almost a direct quote from a recent article in the the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
