A recent post of Zuska's discusses the pejorative use of "anecdote" to dismiss personal accounts of gender bias. The generic argument will be well familiar to many scientists who are used to sneering at sources of insight that are limited...
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Posted on May 13, 2008 11:45 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Perennial Playboy Magazine Top-Ten Party School San Diego State University is in the news following the arrest of some of its students on allegations of illicit drug dealing and drug possession. The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting: Federal agents...
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Posted on May 7, 2008 4:24 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A brief note of best wishes and speedy recovery for Dr. Shulgin. The MAPS recently noted that Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin underwent heart surgery to repair an aortic valve in early April....
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Posted on April 25, 2008 12:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm following up on some blogging resulting from a recent post of mine on the effect Len Bias' death (apparently) had on population level perception of the riskiness of trying cocaine. This will verge on the type of link-vomitus that...
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Posted on March 3, 2008 1:00 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have a tendency to refer to data from the Monitoring the Future study with some frequency. Unfortunately I've been too lazy to post the critical data figures for your entertainment. Until today DearReader. One example of which I am...
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Posted on February 29, 2008 3:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As a brief update on my posts on the clinical use of MDMA (Part 1, Part 2) I'll note that the MAPS folks are trumpeting the initiation of yet another clinical trial with extra oomph because it is at dear...
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Posted on February 25, 2008 1:11 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As a follow to the prior post on MDMA clinical trials, I wanted to delve down into the MDMA dosing specifics. One major problem I have with the MAPS efforts to pursue clinical trials is the expansion of dosing as...
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Posted on January 25, 2008 1:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
