This is cross-posted on my new False Positive blog where I plan to curate some of my writing specific to research methods.  I recently p...

It was Einstein, I think, who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. You could say t...

A few days ago I blogged my dissatisfaction with the coverage of the NLST trial by "The Health Show" on NPR. On the show, the hos...

#5:   When the fuel gauge is on empty: Gadgetry at the e... #4:  Journalism or advertising? "The Health Show" on NP... #3.  Coul...

I am just cynical enough not to be easily shocked. This cynicism extends to our societal woes, and particularly our social and economic ineq...

In my post yesterday I questioned whether our current incentives are truly promoting quality or just prettier looking documentation. I used...

Today's post was going to be about false positives in screening trials, but this article in the NYT derailed me. So I will talk about f...

A while ago I promised to write more about my thoughts inspired by Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational . I still plan to do this, but i...

Addendum 11/22/10 : I want to be very clear that I very much appreciate excellent health reporting by Julie Rovner, JoAnne Silberner, Scott ...

Slow incubation is the answer!

The top five posts this week are as follows: #5:  Unidirectional skepticism #4:  Some implications of biologic plausibility #3:  The ...

I don't know if you remember, but back in March our Earth started to spin faster . The devastating earthquake in Chile shifted our axis ...

I like to poke fun at real estate agents (please, forgive me if you are one, it is all in good fun). My experience has been that, despite wh...

Ever since my... ahem... skirmish... with the folks over at the SBM, I have been contemplating the issue of biologic plausibility. They cont...

Two telling patient encounters still stand out in my memory, one from before medical school and one from my practice. The first one was at a...

I thought I had coined that phrase. I have used it to refer to our tendency to examine ideas that are not aligned with our views of reality...

Top 5 posts on Healthcare, etc. this week are: #5  More thoughts on lung cancer screening #4  Manipulating science #3  Death panels and ...

As you know, I have been thinking a lot about cognitive biases lately. Apropos this, I have had this nagging thought that even smart people ...