Steaming Pile of Research
There is a particular type of study that I really, really hate. It is extremely common and often seen in the physical therapy research. I see it cited time and again by speakers at...
There is a particular type of study that I really, really hate. It is extremely common and often seen in the physical therapy research. I see it cited time and again by speakers at...
“Thus I saw that most [people] only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang von...
“People learn from people they love and remember the things that arouse emotion.” – Plato Who are you? How do you define yourself? What do you think makes you interesting? What about you gets...
“What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.” – Epictetus Before I head down this road, let me clarify a couple things: I’m not talking...
When I say “absurd” I don’t mean the common usage of the word which means unreasonable or irrational. I mean it more in the philosophical sense. I guess I should have called it “Science Is...
You should have been there. Sorry that you’re lame…
One of the great things about the modern PT student is their level of education. Current programs, with the occasional unfortunate exception, do a pretty good job giving a proper foundation of the scientific...
“An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel Ah placebo! Along with natural history and regression to the mean, it is one of the positive non-specific effects of...
He takes a bite of his bacon cheeseburger, “Medical providers don’t know how science works.” “Tell me about it!” I’m having dinner in a noisy sports bar in the Midwest with an applied mathematician with ties...