Friday, September 6, 2019

Epidemiology, biomedical 'causation', and my widow-maker: how to make sense of it, and what terms to use

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A s I've posted previously , I   have been recovering from multiple bypass heart surgery.  I had some angina, vague superficial chest p...
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Friday, August 23, 2019

Worse than The Bridge at San Luis Rey!

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T hornton Wilder's 1938 book The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a classic with a lesson for today that too many know but are in denial about...
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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Beauty is bad for physics---and a blemish on life sciences, too!

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W e naturally like tidy answers to our more fundamental, or even troubling, questions about Nature and existence.  In genetics we want to fi...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Locality: life's Newtonian equivalent of 'universality'

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I n, 1687, in his groundbreaking Principia , Isaac Newton made a fundamental assertion--a fundamental assumption --about reality.  It is tha...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Big Data, Big 'omics-everything....and the sorry state of biomedical research support

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P eople on the federal grant take often speak of 'Big Data' with a nearly lascivious joy.  Big Data is code for biomedical research ...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Who, me?? Why did I clog my 'widow maker'? [on medical cause and effect...and how we know, if we know]

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S o, having just returned from and now recuperating from coronary bypass surgery, I have to ask the 'complexity' question--a very pe...
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Friday, August 9, 2019

Laura! Laura! Please don't do this!

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I was, for the first time ever, a hospital inpatient a couple of weeks ago.  As it turned out, because I knew what angina pectoris is, I we...
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