Sysiphus Speaks Mark Crislip
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The Podcast of the Society for Science-Based Medicine
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Sisyphus Speaks 10: Cognitive dissonance
F. Scott Fitzgerald said "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. First, a survey in England about homeopathy found people often held two opposing ideas:
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Sisyphus Speaks 12: How Medicine Advances Redux
Medicine advances with the tools of science are used to discover an approximation of truth rather than to confirm pre-existing bias.
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Sisyphus Speaks 13: Filthy Lucre
“This is the first mattress that Weil, the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, has endorsed.”
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Sisyphus Speaks 14: People Die. Homeopathy Can Help.
Target sells a homeopathic asthma spray for minor asthma symptoms including shortness of breath, wheezing, and tightness in chest.
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Sisyphus Speaks 15: First Principles
When there is no physiologic reason for why an intervention would work, I am more inclined to suspect the weakest of p values is noise, all sound and fury signifying nothing.
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Sisyphus Speaks 16: Hanlon's Razor
Hanlon’s razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.