From the monthly archives: September 2009

In Defense of Doug Bremner (i.e., Me), by Rick Lippin

By On September 15, 2009 · 10 Comments

Having read the Open Letter to Dr. J Douglas Bremner of Emory University published on September 12, 2009 by Dr. David Gorski in Science-Based Medicine Blog in defense of Dr. Peter Lipson’s criticism of Dr Bremner I was immediately brought back to three articles all published in the 1999 medical literature.

One [...]

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“I Need the Dialysis. I Think I Will Die.”

By On September 14, 2009 · 5 Comments

Today I attended a protest going on at Grady Hospital over dropping dialysis for non-US citizens and then we attended the open board meeting at Grady Hospital. You can get some background by reading ““Grady Hospital Tells Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die” in which I explain how Grady sent letters a couple of [...]

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Extremely Lame-O Article on the “Consensus” of Repressed Memories

By On September 13, 2009 · 4 Comments

I couldn’t believe it when I opened the New York Times this morning and read the rather shoddy article about the case of convicted Boston pedophile priest Paul R. Shanley, who was convicted after one of his victims had a recall of being abused by him after hearing about another case. Shanley is [...]

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What Me Worry? Result No Good, Change Outcome

By On September 12, 2009 · 3 Comments

There has been a recent movement to get some greater accountability in research these days. One of the things that has happened is the development of clinicaltrials.gov. That system involves logging on an registering your clinical trial and saying what it is you are actually hypothesizing your result will be. In the lingo the result [...]

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Response to Peter Lipson MD of “Science” Based Blogs, My Blog Does Not Suck, Yours Does

By On September 10, 2009 · 32 Comments

I got an extremely lame-o critique from Peter Lipson MD, writing on the “White Coat Underground” blog hosted on science-base blogs. Last time I heard from Dr. Lipson he had “unsubscribed” from my email alerts well over a year ago, but apparently he has kept reading because he had a list [...]

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Should I Watch My Father Die Now?

By On September 8, 2009 · 15 Comments

After writing about the egregious goings on at Grady Hospital, which provides healthcare for the poor and indigent in Atlanta, GA, where they proposed denying dialysis patients to non-US citizens as a way to cut costs (which is a death sentence) (see “Grady Hospital Tells Non-US Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die“), I [...]

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We (Me?) Got an Award for Investigative Blogs in Healthcare

By On September 1, 2009 · 6 Comments

Yeah! We got an award for our beforeyoutakethatpill.com site for investigative blogs in healthcare from the “Health and Life Articles” website. Thx! http://healthlifeandstuff.com/. There are some other great blogs mentioned there that I read on a regular basis like neuroskeptic and furious seasons, Scientific Misconduct. ClinPsyc and

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