Healthvsmedicine

All of a sudden, in the middle of chapter 16, without explanation, the narrator shifts to first person. Now it's "we" who are doing all these things. He does not identify himself or tell us how he came to be with Paul, Silas and Timothy. Whatever. For some mysterious reason, God won't let them preach in Asia or Bythynia, but instructs them to go to Macedonia. BTW, as Paul lat...

At least that's the Republican platform. Adam Rogers in Scientific American tells the depressing story of the Dump administration's destruction of the American scientific enterprise. You should read the whole thing,...

Acts 15 represents an important event in the history of the Christian church. It's probably a reasonably accurate description of what happened, either witnessed directly by the author or told to him firsthand. The apostles have been struggling with how to reconcile evangelism to the gentiles with Jewish law and tradition, so at a church council in Jerusalem they decide to mak...

 You might have expected a Juneteenth post, but what can I say? Slavery was bad, glad it's abolished.

If you lived in the Boston area 15 years ago, and even if you didn't, you may remember the case of Philip Markoff, the so-called Craiglist killer. He was a Boston University medical student, with a wedding date set, who developed a hobby of maki...

I'm reading Science Under Siege, by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez. You probably know of them as a climate scientist and public health physician who engaged in vaccine development. You probably also know that both of them have been subjected to continuous and mendacious attack by right wing lunatics. 

It's tough to read because it's just so depress...