Guest post by Michelle Munyikwa The skull was smaller than I expected it to be, shockingly light in my hands. Despite…
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Black History Month Out from the shadows of racist anthropology (Guest Post)Read more
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Black History Month Vulnerability as strength: Thoughts on changing medicine’s hidden curriculum (Guest Post)Read more
Guest post by Michelle Munyikwa I recently read this article in Health Affairs regarding the effects of the hidden…
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Black History Month “How is it that life gets under our skin?” Introducing Michelle MunyikwaRead more
There don’t seem to be all that many PhD anthropologists who are also physicians. It’s a long, daunting road to get there…
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Personal No Guts, No Glory? The Fear and Attraction of Risky Winter SportsRead more
The one time I went flying off the side of a mountain on skis, I certainly didn’t mean to. Before I hit…
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Evidence The Winter Sneeze – Hand, Tissue or Dracula Style? (Gesundheit!)Read more
When I was a kid from the wrong side of the tracks, wiping your nose on your clothes was a…
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Bias 5 Key Things to Know About Meta-AnalysisRead more
Knowledge accumulates. But studies can get contradictory or misleading along the way. You can’t just do a head count: 3 studies saying…
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Bias Inching Closer Towards a Science Base for JusticeRead more
In a courtroom, the full power of the state comes down on an individual. No one should have to face that on…
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Personal Voices, Silence, Strength and Judith Lumley: A Women in Science Mentoring TaleRead more
It began, as life changes often do, when I bought a book. It was in Sydney and I wrote the year in…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2013: A Year of Gaining MomentumRead more
Was this the year open access for science reached critical mass? One hypothesis suggests that a transformative group needs to reach one-third…
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Bias Biomedical Research: Believe It Or Not?Read more
It’s not often that a research article barrels down the straight toward its one millionth view. Thousands of biomedical papers are published every day…
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Bias Statistical Significance and Its Part in Science DownfallsRead more
Imagine if there were a simple single statistical measure everybody could use with any set of data and it would reliably separate…
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Science Communication Science Buzz and Criticism Get a Powerful BoostRead more
The scientific literature is full of it. By which I mean, of course, spin, error and less-than-reliable results. All that noise…