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The MAHA Report Is Mostly ‘Data Vibes’

29 May 2025

Who would be so callous as to not want our children to be healthy?...

The Unscientific Crusade Against Seed Oils

4 Apr 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

How Florence Nightingale Used Data Visualization to Save Lives

17 Jan 2025

When we think about pioneers in science and medicine, the usual suspects are often “fathers of” something: the father of microbiology, the father of modern surgery, and so on. But Florence...

Intermittent Fasting and the Perils of Fast Facts

29 Mar 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

27 Aug 2021

In the first episode of the television show The Resident, a nurse tells the young protagonist that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States after cancer and heart...

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