Terra Sigillata
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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.
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Recent Posts
- Response to Dan Ariely's Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational
- "Stiff Nights" Falls on Hard Times
- Bring Rebecca Skloot and Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) to your town
- Latisse®: Tell me more about my eyes
- Lashing out at Latisse®
- What a blockbuster movie can do to a small town (Miss Cellania at mental_floss)
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- Blue Devil Sex Emporium and Garage on Response to Dan Ariely's Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational
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- Bill James on Response to Dan Ariely's Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational
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