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About a year ago, I discussed an article by Dr. Atul Gawande describing a quality improvement initiative that appeared to have been stalled by the Office for Human Research Protections and its apparent tendency to apply human subjects research protection rules to initiatives that are not exactly…
We're less than a month away from the end of the year (the decade, even). In past years, I've done a review of the year, where I select my favourite posts. But those were more innocent and less productive times. This year, I have written 245 posts and counting and it's now easy to narrow these down…
"If I have to be male, I was hoping for a younger, more fit body, and a better head of hair. It does however fulfill one of my greatest fantasies, which is that I have long had subpoena envy." New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, author of "The Dark Side," who has done much to expose the Bush…
Here are some links. By the way, I heard some new guy is preznit or something. Science first: Global Warming, The Carbon Cycle, and Fish Poop. Kellogg recalls 16 products due to salmonella risk Phylogenetic inference under recombination using Bayesian stochastic topology selection Ancient DNA…