musings on medicines from the Earth
Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of an academic researcher and educator who holds a PhD in Pharmacology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, academic career development, medical journalism and, occasionally, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.
Terra Sigillata is the name of the first authenticated, trademarked drug.
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August 29, 2008
Category: Guest blogger, Coracle
Science and Progress blogger Coracle provides you with a guest post - if you're at the London Science Blogging Conference this weekend, please buy him a pint.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:02 AM • 4 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Category: Blogging community
Just thinking out loud.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:02 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: Chemistry
When a press release claims the smashing of a century-old rule in biochemical pharmacology and physiology, one must take a few minutes and examine a bit of the literature from those intervening hundred years. Sorry, but Overton is not overturned.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:03 AM • 4 Comments •
August 26, 2008
Category: Women's health
[Sort of a repost from the last two years, updated appropriately - APB] Six years ago at 11:24 am EDT (1624 GMT), your humble blogger was handed the keys to a whole new vocabulary of love. The gift came in...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:43 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Colorado
DNC in Denver reminds me about Rep Diana Degette's book. If you've read it, how does it compare to Chris Mooney's 'Republican War on Science"?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:46 AM • 1 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Category: Colorado
If you're reading this from Denver, pick up an actual hardcopy of 5280 Magazine.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:55 AM • 1 Comments •
August 22, 2008
Category: Colorado
It's probably just confirmation bias. And I can't even remember the name of the champagne.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:23 PM • 0 Comments •
August 20, 2008
Category: Quackery
I bought six packages of Airborne and all I got was a measly $48 - and some very nice attention from a BusinessWeek blog.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 3 Comments •
August 18, 2008
Category: Academia
I'm sure this question has been addressed in the educational literature to which I do not currently have electronic access. The question for the day is whether a department that has, say, a 10-year record of awarding tenure to every...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:14 AM • 8 Comments •
August 17, 2008
Category: Blog carnivals
I am officially embarrassed. It was recently brought to my attention that my previous post misattributed the new Praxis blog to Bora Zivkovic. Bora did indeed host the first edition of Praxis, the new blog carnival of academic life. However....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:20 AM • 1 Comments •
August 16, 2008
Category: Academia
Life, science, and a life in science.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:08 PM • 2 Comments •
August 15, 2008
Category: Science/medical journalism
UPenn's Philip Rea tells the story of Akira Endo and the discovery of statins better than I have ever seen. Good Friday night drinking reading.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:35 PM • 0 Comments •
August 13, 2008
Category: Cancer
Yet another caution about overinterpretation of cell culture data. And, no, the brand name Dolophine was not in deference to Adolf Hitler.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 8 Comments •
August 11, 2008
Category: Love for Terra Sig readers
After a long sit on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport, I'm home from the ScienceBlogs blogger and reader meet-up. Many thanks to all of you readers who came out on Saturday to meet the bloggers at Social Pub, sponsored jointly...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:46 PM • 5 Comments •
August 7, 2008
Category: Humor
So said Seth Grahame-Smith on Tuesday about the Paris Hilton video that responds to John McCain's ad comparing she and Britney Spears to Barack Obama. I first saw the video when I was going to respond to a very nice...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:02 AM • 6 Comments •
August 6, 2008
Category: Blogging community
Alright, alright - I'll be there, okay?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:45 PM • 1 Comments •
August 4, 2008
Category: Bioethics
It's a lovely crescent moon this evening up here in the Northern Hemisphere so I can't blame the latest unbelievable and irrational happenings on a full moon (which would be unscientific, of course). Okay, maybe sunspots? First, the Bush administration...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:47 PM • 3 Comments •
August 2, 2008
Category: Blogging community
What does this stuff really mean anyway?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:48 PM • 5 Comments •
August 1, 2008
Category: Mentoring
This morning our dear friend and colleague whose wine escapades often fill this spot awoke to the rewards of retirement. My senior cancer research colleague, Erleichda, has just closed the book on 30 years with a single pharmaceutical company, unheard...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 11:05 PM • 6 Comments •
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