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You can be your own scientist. Ken Mitton
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September 8, 2025
Evidence Based Medicine is Less than 50 years old: born in Hamilton Ontario from an American doctor who made Canada home.
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If you should poll students and scholars of medical history about the most important developments of modern health care, you would find some...
September 4, 2025
mRNA Vaccines: what the 1st Trump administration did correct and is now putting in jeopardy in 2025.
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Updated 9-4-2025 As a biochemistry professional, I have followed the science of COVID-19 before most people had heard about it, before it w...
Walking the DOGE? They may leave a mess for you: a government purse with no watchdogs and lack of medical research.
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Back in February I wrote this post and have updated it today as we start the Fall term and I just taught the first class of Science of Visio...
September 25, 2024
Human Guinea Pigs, the people paid to safety test potential new drugs are not really volunteers without pressure.
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The first testing of a drug to be approved in Canada, or in the US by the FDA, or for the EU's drug agency, requires giving the drug at ...
April 10, 2024
Solar Eclipse Safely, from a Vision Scientist.
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Now we are post-eclipse. If you or anyone you know is noticing a new difficulty reading with their central vision today (Wednesday, two day...
March 26, 2024
How to Watch the Solar Eclipse Safely, from a Vision Scientist.
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I wrote about this during the last eclipse in 2017, now its time to update for this April 2024. How can you watch the solar eclipse without...
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