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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.
July 31, 2006
Category: Drugs
Are we dividing drugs into illegal and legal based on a rational classification system based on risk? A British government committee says no: The committee's report recommends that drugs be ordered on "a more scientific scale, to give the public...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:49 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Law
Gov. Schwarzenegger and Tony Blair are endeavoring to create a California and Great Britain global warming pact, to pool their efforts in lowering CO2 emissions: Britain and California are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global warming together...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:40 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Nature vs. Nuture
This review in Nature Neuroscience is excellent. I have never seen the issue of gene-environment interactions laid out so eloquently. Unfortunately, it is behind a subscription wall, so those of you not affiliated with a University may have to just...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:36 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Science politics
Them's, as they say, fighting words. The National Journal has a cover story on the Politicization of Science by Paul Starobin, and there is simply no way in the concievable Universe that this is not going to cause a ruckus....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:26 AM • 2 Comments •
July 27, 2006
Category: Sports Doping
Floyd Landis, most recent winner of the Tour de France, has tested positive for testosterone use:...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:39 PM • 40 Comments •
Category: Obesity and Heart Disease
A study reveals that an increasingly large number of Americans are too fat to fit in MRIs and have X-rays that lack resolution: More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:24 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Gender
Apparently I will be spending today documenting differing opinions on the Ben Barres Nature editorial. Here is the man himself doing Q&A for the NYTimes: Q. What about the idea that men and women differ in ways that give men...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:25 AM • 0 Comments •
The WHO reports that the Sun kills as many as 60,000: As many as 60,000 people a year die from too much sun, mostly from malignant skin cancer, the World Health Organization has reported. It found that 48,000 deaths every...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:52 AM • 5 Comments •
July 26, 2006
Category: Gender
Eugene Volokh from The Volokh Conspiracy has weighed in on the recent Nature editorial by Ben Barres that I commented about before. The editorial is about whether it was right for Larry Summers, former President of Harvard, to discuss the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:05 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Medicine
...depression. This is related to something they make medical students memorize. When someone comes in with hypertension, it is always good to check whether the person has renal artery stenosis because this is one of the few causes of hypertension...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 5:34 PM • 0 Comments •
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