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How Pfizer’s $2.3B criminal settlement proves Obama wants to ‘federalize’ healthcare

Posted on September 2, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The biggest criminal fine ever, paid to settle charges of extreme seriousness. And some yahoo asserts this fine is really part of Obama’s effort to “federalize” medicine and cut costs.

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Cool dips: long distance running; memory and plagiarism; scenery; and swine flu action

Posted on July 10, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

A look at runners who forget suffering, writers who forget they’re stealing, mountain scenes that aren’t, and swine flu that resists Tamiflu.

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Do ADHD Drugs Take a Toll on the Brain?

Posted on July 7, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The story’s opening, which tells of a parent seemingly overeager to medicate a child who didn’t need it, gives an idea of why this question is more important than we might like.

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Top Neuron Culture posts from June

Posted on July 4, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

In case you missed them (or miss them, and want to read again …)

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Swine flu count in US hits 1 million; can’t wait till flu season!

Posted on June 30, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The US now has had over 1 million flu cases this spring — despite the end of regular flu season. 90 days till flu season resumes. Anyone paying attention?

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Afternoon dip – Zombie fire ants, stereotype threat, bedtime routines, floating plastic, and tree-climbing bots

Posted on May 22, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

Speaking of pleasure: Having lived with fire ants, stepped in fire ants, laid down with fire ants, and been bit just about everywhere by fire ants, this pleases me immensely: Parasitic flies turn fire ants them into zombies. The fly maggots eat their brains.

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Pharma objects to empiricism, part xxx

Posted on May 20, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

This gets at the deep, deep problem created by allowing pharma to dominant drug testing data while we lack the ability to collect information on how well various drug and other treatments actually work in clinical practice.

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, the true strange story of my mother's secret wartime affair, which became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single, and which readers of the longform publisher The Atavist selected as their favorite Atavist publication. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For my reading recommendations in my daily newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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