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Four steps to reduce cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease is a policy choice

Jul 9 • 

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June 2025

That MIT paper about AI enhancing scientific productivity that everyone has been talking about is fake..

Where were are all the internet peer reviewers?

Jun 29 • 

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May 2025

Why are we making so little progress on Long COVID?

In February 2021 the federal government announced the RECOVER initiative to tackle Long COVID.

May 5 • 

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March 2025

A critical analysis of Microsoft's quantum "breakthrough"

A friend of mine requested I write something about Microsoft’s recently announced quantum chip, building off my last two posts on quantum computing.

Mar 3 • 

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January 2025

German scientific paternalism and the golden age of German science

1880 - 1930

Jan 28 • 

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Why is it so hard to build a quantum computer?

A first-principles look at the extreme engineering challenges

Jan 18 • 

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Quantum computing: hype vs reality

Part 1 of a 2 part series.

Jan 13 • 

Dan Elton

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November 2024

A pro-science and pro-progress middle school health textbook from 1929

"Science and The Way to Health" by Andress and Brown

Nov 29, 2024 • 

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Who should be our next FDA Commissioner?

And what exciting ideas would they bring to the table?

Nov 17, 2024 • 

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October 2024

A steel man of peer review [New on Asimov Press!]

Almost two years ago Ben Recht asked on Twitter if there were any pieces that articulated the value of peer review, since every piece he had seen was…

Oct 22, 2024 • 

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When "weak links" in science matter -- high profile fraud in Alzheimer's disease research

Trying to raise the alarm about fraud can feel like howling into the wind.

Oct 20, 2024 • 

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August 2024

An overview of conspiracy theories about transhumanism

Part 2 in the series "why nobody wants to call themselves a transhumanist anymore"

Aug 29, 2024 • 

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