Not a bad job by AI-imagebot given my lengthy prompt I. A PostScript on Medical Diagnosticism and Math-Mal.1 My favorite story that encapsulates what’s wrong with modern medical diagnosticism comes from a friend’s childhood, circa the mid-1960s. Evidently the family...
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Games of "Chance" and Conditional Probability I. Introduction to Frequentist Statistics In a few earlier, backhanded comments I mentioned that much of the mathematics that undergirds modern statistics derives from Continental haute couture’s obsession with so-called...
During the hearings on the Nixon impeachment, Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) asked the now famous question: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
I had defended Marines and sailors facing a lot more time or charged with much more serious crimes, yet I was more nervous than I had ever been before walking into court.
The anthrax vaccine’s manufacturer has had an interesting ownership history, beginning in 1968 as the Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH).
The first use of a human anthrax vaccine took place in 1954.
I didn’t even knock on Justin’s door, I busted in like Kreamer on a Seinfeld episode.
More can and must be done, however, to rebuild trust, to avoid repeating past mistakes, and to prevent future health consequences similar to those experienced during and after the Gulf War. Our troops must be assured that when we send them into battle, they will be...
In the late 1980s, the Department of Defense had a problem. It was anticipating the need for better means to combat chemical and biological agents and, to the point, the U.S. was way behind the Soviet Union in its chemical and biological warfare preparedness.
Before 1962, vaccines, drugs, and other such products did not undergo nearly the kind of scrutiny that they do today in order to become licensed. It wasn’t until the thalidomide disaster of the 1960’s that federal regulation of drugs came to be what it is today.
The Declaration of Independence’s most trenchant historical observation is coupled with its boldest claim: “that governments are instituted among men, [and] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Major John Hitesman graduated from the Norwich Military Academy a year before I graduated from Boston University. Like me, Hitesman had a “life” before becoming a lawyer.
The first principle enunciated in the Nuremberg Code is that “the informed consent of the subject is absolutely essential.”
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