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Pandora’s Ghost: The Seduction of Artificial Perfection

We didn’t open the box out of malice. We opened it because we were curious. We knew AI wasn’t perfect and we’d heard the...

Why I Stopped Drinking Diet Coke

For more than a year, I have stopped consuming diet soda. My go to drink was Diet Coke, and it was not uncommon for...

Flawed Research, Clever Marketing, and the Failure of a Depression Theory

Research based on cherry-picking statistics and small studies suited the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, but it may have been all wrong.

A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first learned about the disease’s twisty, storied history in 1996 while interning at the World Health...