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What does it mean when a clinical trial fails? Probably not what you think.

Posted on April 17, 2018 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Today I published a story I’ve been working on, off and on, for exactly two years. “What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial is Stopped” now on...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine/Psychiatry

How Culture Shapes Madness, my latest at Pacific Standard

Posted on October 3, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/History of science/Medicine

Does autism happen the way we think it does?

Posted on August 2, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My latest story, about how autism starts, starts like this: One of the oldest ideas in autism — as old as the naming of the condition itself — is that it comes ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Medicine/Psychiatry/Published elsewhere/Writing

Smartphone psychiatry? How NIMH director Tom Insel turned from brain scanners to social tech

Posted on June 22, 2017 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Around this time, Insel told me recently, he’d just finished a talk describing the wonderful things the NIMH was discovering about the brain when a man in the a...

Brains and Behavior/Politics

How anger creates a false feeling of power – and thus Trump

Posted on December 8, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

How was Trump able to harness so much anger, even though he had proposed no solutions and offered no way to build anything new? Martha Nussbaum offers that he c...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Published elsewhere

The most terrifying childhood condition you’ve never heard of | Spectrum

Posted on July 6, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I’m honored to have written this story of a rare, severely debilitating disorder; the researchers trying to crack it; and the uncommon love between a fath...

Best Thing I Read Just Now/Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science

Andre Fenton, comeback memory player of the year

Posted on June 23, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Carl Zimmer on memory researcher Andre Fenton, comeback researcher of the year. In an age when we get a lot of our medical news in click-baity headlines and has...

Anthropology/Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Published elsewhere

The Selfish Gene is a static meme, and that ain’t science

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Richard Dawkins’s “The Selfish Gene,” book and meme, is now 40 years old. Has it served its purpose? And how do we talk about whether it has? ...

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Brooke Borel’s strange story about Kevin Folta interviewing himself, among other (mis)adventures

Posted on October 20, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  The Kevin Folta/GMO/Monsanto/Right-to-Know/conflict-of-interest variety show and bazaar — a saga about a food scientist who took $25,000 from Monsanto wi...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/History of science/Psychiatry

Paxil shown unsafe for teens, drugmaker congratulates self for sharing damning data it hid for years

Posted on September 17, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This post got an upgrade: The revised, expanded version is now at The Atlantic. Many thanks to the folks at The Atlantic for picking it up. If you need a teaser...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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