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Round-up: Dinos on display, soldiers at play, stereotypes at work, pharma ghosts, Iraqi snakes
Posted by David Dobbs on June 25, 2009 Much much much ado on the web this week, on the too-many fronts I try to visit. From my list of notables: Carl Zimmer, who clearly doesn’t sleep, writes up a nice post about a Nature paper announcing Limusaurus, a newly discovered fossil that is, Zimmer notes, is “not — I repeat NOT — the…
Sorting out the placebo effect in teen depression studies
Posted by David Dobbs on March 5, 2009 Philip Dawdy takes a interesting look at a new study of the safety of placebo arms in clinical trials of antidepressants in teens. My own quick scan of the study [which Dawdy makes available as pdf download] suggests it’s full of great nuggets. Its take-home: Placebo treatments produced remission rates of 48%, while the rate…
Philip Dawdy on mainstream v pajama media
Posted by David Dobbs on January 22, 2009 In response to my post on himself, the NY Times, Zyprexa, Infinite Mind, etc.
Zyprexa, Infinite Mind, and mainstream vs. pajama press
Posted by David Dobbs on January 19, 2009 I stirred some ire last week when I asserted that the Times (for — disclosure dept — whom I sometimes write) and similar mainstream papers offer a public good through their unique combination of a) access to information and 2) clout with the public and government. Several readers took me to task (see the comments…