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There's a well known pattern that studies conducted by a drug company are more likely to report positive results than studies conducted by a neutral party.

I'm old enough to remember the Vietnam War and the AFL-CIO of the day was staunchly anti-communist and pro-war. Most of the opposition to the war before Nixon became president came…

Read the biographies of people you admire.

Before we start worrying about herd immunity, we need to show that the vaccines for covid-19 prevent transmission of the virus as well as prevent or mitigate the symptoms of covid-…

A number of people have been fired from their jobs because of the cancel culture. It's that "de-platforming" that most concerns me. While people have the right of free association,…

"Gigo" also is an acronym for "garbage in, garbage out." So you may want to rethink your name.

"The UK Biobank used a baseline touch screen questionnaire to assess several potential confounders: sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex, ethnicity, Townsend Deprivation Inde…

Wikipedia says Jenner first demonstrated the smallpox vaccine in 1796. The revolutionary war ended in 1783.