Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090209/1215113705/dailydirt-cures-to-whatever-ails-you.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090209/1215113705/dailydirt-cures-to-whatever-ails-you.shtml

This TEDtalk points out how to identify bad medical science through publication bias. If you flip a coin a hundred times and ignore half of the times it comes up tails, then maybe you're not doing something right. [url]

Buying cocaine without a prescription was once commonplace -- to cure all sorts of maladies, like "flatulence, colic, hysteria, hypochondria, back pain, muscle aches"... Whenever there's fun, there's always coca-cola..? [url]

Neuroscience could point to more effective treatments for various addictions and improve the success rate for rehab clinics. They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no..." [url]

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