Could surgical procedures be merely placebos?

“Here’s my card. Can I have yours, please?” Whatever else happens in a first-time business meeting, exchanging cards is a ritual that’s constant. You will tuck it into your pocket, or a card holder if you are the compulsive type. If in Japan, you will bow slightly, receive it reverently with both hands, read it carefully, then place it perfectly square on the desk in front of you and put it away only at the end of the meeting.

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World wide wanderings, in batches of five … or, “Cultural Learnings of the Internet for Make Benefit Glorious Readers of Medium” (with profound thanks and apologies to Sacha Baron Cohen and Borat) 1: How language shapes the way we think

World wide wanderings, in batches of five … or, “Cultural Learnings of the Internet for Make Benefit Glorious Readers of Medium” (with profound thanks and apologies to Sacha Baron Cohen and Borat). 1: If you are looking for a new idea, start at the edge of what is known

The hallmark of intelligence is the ability to learn new tasks. How does the human brain go about the task? The human brain, remarkable as it is, does not go about the task of learning in a very efficient manner. It uses a highly inefficient approach called “Reassociation.” We appear to learn new tasks simply by repeating the original neural activity patterns and swapping their assignments. Although “quick and dirty” it’s not the best way to learn.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” If modern medical research were to be held up to scrutiny on the basis of this popular quote (commonly, but erroneously, attributed to Einstein), it appears that it needs urgent help. Reproducibility, a key tenet of…

Roughly ten items make up the list of leading causes of death in adult populations. A sizeable portion of medical research is targeted at establishing risk factors for them and using this knowledge to institute educational and public health measures for reducing their likelihood. Smoking, obesity, alcohol abuse, and sedentary…

We are admonished, ad nauseam, that money can’t buy happiness. This advice has to be high on the list of hypocrisy promoted in aphorisms. As one wag added, “… but you can search for it in comfort.” There is a large body of evidence in support of poor people living…