Rants & Ramblings Archives

Dr Anand Senthi (@drsenthi) posted a great talk about what he calls “EBM 2.0” entitled “Evidence Based Fraud […]

EBM 2.0

The pressure cooker of COVID-19 has brought out examples of both the best and the worst in medicine. […]

Should a clinician see a patient with COVID symptoms if the appropriate PPE is not available?

Sucrose is not a pain medication. That rant already exists on this blog. It was also the subject […]

There are two massive problems with science publication, and maybe only one way to fix them. Any long […]

Last year, I started keeping track of the books I was reading, mostly to help prevent me from […]

By now, I think everyone has heard of the test threshold. It is most often discussed in the […]

You can’t interpret the results of a test without knowing the pretest probability. I am sure we have […]

During my time in New Zealand, I have heard that speech far too many times. (The consequence of […]