A slightly different version of this article was published in The Ottawa Citizen.
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27Mar
2025
Canada Should Act Now to Attract US Scientists Fleeing the Trump Regime
28Feb
2025
Resist the Randomized Controlled Trials Fetish
The article below has been published in the Canadian Medical Education Journal (CMEJ). But it’s not written in very technical language, so I thought I’d amplify its reach by reproducing it here, as well. I think it’s pretty important and timely, given the amount of noise in public discourse about the sacrosanct nature of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and how much that noise impacts public perception of public health policies.
If you want to cite his article, though, please use the CMEJ citation:
Deonandan R. Resist the Randomized Controlled Trials fetish: different questions require different pyramids of evidence. Can. Med. Ed. J [Internet]. 2025 Feb. 24 [cited 2025 Feb. 28];16(1):126-7.
18Feb
2025
The Art of Alison Friend
I recently stumbled upon a series of Facebook pages on which were posted the most delightful images of anthropomorphic animal portraits by an artist named Alison Friend.
I don’t know Ms Friend, and I have not (yet) purchased one of her prints. But I’m sharing many of the images downloaded from those Facebook pages I mentioned.
Of course, I don’t own the rights to any of these images. If you like them, I encourage you to purchase a print from the artist herself, who can be found at AlisonFriend.com. (more…)
05Feb
2025
Raywat / blog / 0 comment
2025
About 35 years ago, give or take, I was in between degrees and needed money. So I took a year long position as a bilingual receptionist at an office of the government of Ontario in Toronto. I think it was the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board, which no longer exists. I really enjoyed that job, as it afforded me a lot of free time to write and think, while just answering the phone and greeting random bureaucrats. (more…)
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