A few things worth sharing: 10-25-2020
The Challenger flight; Addressing climate change, post-pandemic
Time-restricted eating: efficacy versus effectiveness
What happens when people are prescribed a treatment vs what happens when people take the treatment are two different questions.
Topo Chico
Am I going to throw out my current stockpile of Topo Chico?
A few things worth sharing: 10-04-2020
Longevity in mice; The wonders of F1.
Colorectal cancer screening
When I learned about Chadwick Boseman’s death from colorectal cancer (CRC) at the age of 43 a few weeks ago, it broke my heart.
I need your help!
How can we take some of the bespoke insights we provide to our relatively few patients and deliver them on a larger scale?
A few things worth sharing: 09-13-2020
The Lost Years and Last Days of David Foster Wallace.
Randomized controlled trials: when the gold standard leaves you with fool’s gold
If I told you that I read a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial conducted over 5 years and carried out in over 18,000 participants, is there any scenario under which you would not believe it to be an excellent trial?
A few things worth sharing: 08-30-2020
Shitty first drafts and accelerating fasts.
Normative errors and Surgisphere
Last month, the New York Times profiled Dr. Sapan Desai, founder of Surgisphere, the company that supplied the data for two recently retracted studies.