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Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic Book Review

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthy, MD Avery (May 21, 2019) ISBN 0735217505 I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. Superbugs is a fascinating book, and I’m glad I had the chance to review it. This book is

The Long View 2007-01-26: The Dead Hand of the Seventies Flexes but Is Mitigated by Scientific Advances

I have never bothered to closely follow popular science news for two reasons: 1. It is often confused, at best 2. Even when it is well-reported, whatever results are covered tend to be invalidated over time Nothing here strikes me as especially dumb, but I like to wait for the

Scott Locklin on Quantum Computing: More Support for my Cocktail Party Theory of Science

Scott Locklin has a new post up on quantum computing, Quantum Computing as a Field is Obvious Bullshit. I have to agree, quantum computing [and AI] is largely bullshit, and we should probably nuke and pave the whole field. On a side note, I wonder whether this post functions as

Fst and Selection

Greg Cochran had an instructive Twitter exchange on Fst and adaption, which he expanded into a blog post at West Hunter. Genetic similarity is usually described using the statistic Fst, fixation index. The fixation index is a useful number, but it doesn’t mean what a lot of people seem

The Long View: Two Scientists

This essay from John is an extended reflection on the lives of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, who were famous at about the same time for about the same reason. One hundred years later, I note that famous people’s personal lives are approximately as scandalous now as they were

What works in healthcare?

Short answer: almost nothing. I’m being flip about a very serious subject, but at the same time I am in fact serious. Modern medicine probably works a lot less well than you probably think it does. How could I say such a thing when you look at graphs like

Linkfest 2018-08-06: Now with more science!

Somehow I had never really captured the term, Second Industrial Revolution. This is the far more interesting one that came in the late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century. This is where we got electricity and steel and mass production. A long journey to reproducible results Reproducibility is often an afterthought in science, which