Found this gem via Matt Taibbi: “With an absolutely straight face, Rand Paul compares public health care to slavery. He says that if everyone has a right to health care, that means that people can come to his office – Rand is a doctor, after…
I rely you people to correct me when I screw up – and I made something of a howler in that last post. Fortunately, Krugman’s actual column today caught it. I claimed that the current debate is about how best to reduce the size of…
I got some good traction from a recent blog post by Krugman about the dangers of treating medical care as a commodity, sold by doctors to consumer/ patients. The thoughts this inspired just don’t seem to fit in Facebook’s ever shrinking comment window. Here’s the…
I was an early adopter for 23 and me, got my first set of genome data back in April of 2008. Now, I’m nowhere near the real leaders in the field, but I was there when it started to get cool. Got the T-shirt, but…
There is a decent amount of coverage about how the key study linking vaccination to autism was outright fraud. There should be more coverage. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Out of all the arenas of public thought, public health is one of…
One last thought on the Warrior gene. Based on a semi-casual survey of three SNPs from my 23 and me data, I do not carry this gene. Yet, when I started looking into this, my guess was that from experience, I have a strong built-in…
My friend found a solution for my question of what he terms the ‘manliness’ gene! I will briefly protest that neither are all belligerent hot-sauce administering warriors men, nor are all men warriors, and then move on. The solution is to use some of that…
Cariaso subjected me to a bit of a high-tech rickroll yesterday with his helpful link into information about the SNP I shared. It wasn’t until he prodded me to actually click the link in his comment that I realized that he had sent people to…
I was an early adopter for the 23 and me service. I ordered the kit in January of 2008, in the early and heady days of personal genomics, when it still cost $1,000. I just recently ordered a limited time special of a similar service…
Last week, technolope came over for a quick lunch, which is one of those rare treats when you work from home. We went to Common Grounds cafe, an eclectic little restaurant around the corner from my house. The restaurant is run by a small community…