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This idea is dumb enough to sound like it came from Elon Musk, but it didn't.

As the calendar turns to September, football fans across America rejoice as NFL and college teams once again take the field. In between watching our favorite teams, we have continued to fight the good fight for science and health.

“Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw,” those words of Tennyson are taken by many as aptly characterizing Darwinian evolution.

Elvis is still alive. Osama bin Laden is still alive. Paul McCartney is dead. These are just a handful of the conspiracy theories involving the alive/dead status of various famous people. Now, we can add Steve Jobs to the list.

It's astounding how quickly the summer has flown by. For many of you, it was because you spent some of the season on vacation. But not for us at ACSH. Oh no. We were busy keeping the world safe from junk science.

“First, you (and me) are probably not that good at most tasks. One should recognize that our performance perceptions are upwardly biased. Thus, it pays to be humble and learn as much as possible from others.”

Every once in a while, I like to take stock of what I'm doing in life.

“We are all storytellers; we make sense out of the world by telling stories. And science is a great source of stories. Not so, you might argue. Science is an objective collection and interpretation of data.

Much has been said and written on gender disparities. For a long while, women were deliberately left out of scientific protocols because of concerns about the effect of the experiments on pregnancy and fertility.

Perhaps it is only me, but I suspect that it is true for the majority of my colleagues, scheduling our time in the operating room is a very personal matter.