Jack Black is, apparently, very passionate about health care reform. So he recorded two shorts smearing the people who smear health care reform. He plays a professional mis-informant who infiltrates a class of eight-year olds and tells them about the evils of Obamacare at recess: “You know who else pays for their own medical bills? [...]
I feel bad publicizing events in Montreal because it proves that I’m biased and RadarLake readers are scattered throughout the country and world. Let me know if anything interesting is happening in your town! But this week Montreal has a stellar lineup of interesting talks. Sunday 3pm-4pm on CJAD radio: David Gorski will be appearing [...]
I wrote this post listening to this song by Toronto duo Bonjay so you may as well listen to it while you’re reading it. I’ve been critical of a number of medical fields on this blog. Most notably I’ve taken a critical view of some practices of physicians, pharmaceutical companies and, just this week, dentists. [...]
You may not agree with Sam Harris, but he is stimulating a lot of discussion on whether science has anything to say about morality with his new book The Moral Landscape which I’ll be reading as soon as I don’t have 8,000 other things to do. Here’s a list of people putting their hats in [...]
Dan Ariely’s most recent interview on NPR has struck a real nerve among dentists. You can listen to his interview here but the basic idea is twofold: 1) when two dentists look at the same x-rays and diagnose cavities, they only agree on 50% of them and 2) that loyalty to dentists is a lot [...]
“Round and Round” by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti And the unofficial video for the song:
If you’re in Toronto and have any interest in medicine, I suggest heading down to Glen Gould Studio on Tuesday to catch Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC radio’s popular show on medicine White Coat Black Art, for a townhall-style show about medical errors. What could be so interesting about medical errors? Isn’t it an [...]
How normal people mack: How scientists mack: Another important difference. (via Black Triangle)
