Mayim Bialik and Neuriva. (By the way, claiming to be a neuroscientist- albeit one with a PhD who, once degreed, never worked in the field, is an interesting claim. Almost as good as the one that Neuriva has been fully researched.) A bunch of nobodies and Prevagen.
Continue reading They really don’t work!
When I was a little boy in elementary school (and it might have continued through 7th or 8th grade- I’m not sure what year they stopped), we had an annual occurrence. We were administered the Stanford-Binet IQ tests.
Continue reading Stanford-Binet?
So, with all the news about aduhelm, Biogen’s treatment for Alzheimer’s, that has been in the news a lot lately, shouldn’t we be looking for a potential treatment that actually works?
Continue reading An Alzheimer’s Therapy that Works?
If this surprises you, it means you are a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene or maybe TheDonald.
Of what am I talking? A study completed by Drs. Nicholas Camp (Michigan), Rob Voigt (Northwestern), with Dan Jurafsky and Jennifer Eberhardt (both from Stanford), published as “The Thin Blue Waveform: Racial Disparities in Officer Prosody Undermine Institutional Trust in the Police”, in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Continue reading Police Prejudice is Real
This is going to be a bit depressing. We always thought we could teach people all sorts of things. But, four academics (3 from Princeton, 1 from Columbia, but one of the Princeton profs is also at the Hebrew University) just burst that bubble.
Continue reading We’ve been wrong all these years
Before TheDonald ever ran for president, psychologists and behavioral scientists identified the illusory truth effect. (One of the first discussions was back in 1977 by Lynn Hasher, David Goldstein, and Thomas Toppino [Frequency and the conference of referential validity].)
Continue reading Illusory Truth Effect
Y’all remember when I told you about the hypothesis (and testing) that Dr. Andreas Greinacher (University of Griefswald) posed about the blood clots developed from the J&J and Astra-Zeneca vaccines? His data indicated that the clots formed when proteins in the vaccine create reactions in the subject’s blood supply. (They bonded to PF4- platelet factor 4.)
Continue reading Nailing down the cause of those blood clots
We spoke about the Aduhelm fiasco about two weeks ago.
Continue reading Aduhelm controversy- part 2
I miss Dr. Duskas. For years, he was my eye doctor. Of course, he was entitled to retire, but I still miss him. He replaced Dr. Curtis Bare, my eye doctor for the 13 years I lived in Charlottesville.
Continue reading Retinal Screening?
It’s not often that a rabbi crosses over into secular life and makes a grand impression. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (who died earlier this year) was one such fellow. But, he was the Chief Rabbi of England.
Continue reading Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski