Selling Fear and Politics

Because she could not recite the alphabet, Joshua Tabor shoved his daughter face-down into a bowl of water. When authorities came for her, she was found cowering in a closet, covered in scratches and...

Peer review as Talisman

Mark Steyn says: Like all the poodles of the environmental beat, Margot O’Neill repeats those magic words “peer review” every couple of paragraphs like a talisman to ward off evil...

Telling a patient story and the issues facing physician writers

by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD There is a veritable epidemic of doctor-writers out there. What is going on? Are doctors suddenly in the kiss-and-tell mode? What about confidentiality? Professionalism?...

NYT plays the Republican tune

I turned on my computer the other day to see the New York Times had the Republican party line on its front page as "News Analysis." David Sanger wrote that "there is virtually no room over the next...

Apple’s iPad: A Gadget Killer — or Just Another Gadget?

Apple’s iPad: A Gadget Killer — or Just Another Gadget?Apple, which brought consumers such hits as the iPod and iPhone, is wading into a new product category with the launch of its...