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musings on medicines from the Earth
Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of an academic researcher and educator who took his PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and BS in Toxicology. 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.
"Why Terra Sigillata?" will tell you more about the origin of the blog name.
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October 31, 2008
Category: The Friday Fermentable
An affordable Viognier and a half-decent 6-string guitar enables one to approximate a very complicated 40-year mystery.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:34 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Alternative medicine
"The personality of the pseudoexpert merits detailed psychological analysis. It helps, I think, not to be too intelligent. This makes it easier for the pseudoexpert to fall victim to his or her own powers of persuasion."
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:16 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2008
Category: Politics
Fresh off the presses from the mothership....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2008
Category: Blogging community
I want to be Tom Levenson. That is all.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2008
Category: Memes
The blogger who I thought among all held the greatest disdain for any of these silly little narcissistic blogger games, Comrade PhysioProf, has tagged me with a meme. 1. Link to the person who tagged you. 2. Post the rules...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:02 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 25, 2008
Category: Politics
Have you gotten this yet?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 4:37 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 24, 2008
Category: The Friday Fermentable
Hey! Stop blogging or commenting for a moment and tell us what you are drinking right now.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bioethics
"Prescribing 'placebo treatments': results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists," is the title of a newly-published article in the 23 October issue of BMJ (British Medical Journal). The full text article and PDF are available for free at...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 2:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Civil rights
Yes, we have come far, but not yet far enough.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 22, 2008
Category: The Pseudonymity Laboratory
The salicious suspense of pseudonymity.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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