Like many biomedical investigators, I’ve been sweating it over the resubmission of an R01 grant my collaborator and I worked furiously on and submitted on November 1. He’s the principal investigator, but I’m a coinvestigator with 25% effort; I also wrote one of the three specific aims and most of another, the justification for animal […]
Category: Medicine
I should know better. I really should. I’m referring, of course, to my having forgotten my usual avoidance of purely political posts yesterday. I’m beginning to remember why I so seldom blog about political matters in general and why I’ve never in two years discussed abortion on this blog in particular. I don’t know what […]
I’m getting really, really tired of this. You’ve all read my rants at the propensity of surgeons who clearly don’t have clue one about evolutionary theory spouting off ignorantly about the alleged shortcomings of evolution as a theory while either explicitly or implicitly promoting the pseudoscience of “intelligent design” creationism. I don’t think I have […]
Somehow, in all the blogging about dichloroacetate earlier this week, I somehow missed a mention of a truly annoying thing that the editors of Lancet Neurology did. In essence, they allowed ethically challenged mercury warrior Mark Geier a forum to review Richard Lathe’s book Autism, Brain, and Environment. Egads! How desperate wer the editors of […]
Well, this is useful….
In case you didn’t know, here are instructions for opening your bowels (via Clusterfock, Kottke, and Kevin, MD): I wonder if I’ve been doing it wrong all these years. I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever used a footrest…
