Tag: data driven beliefs

04 May 2008

Why EMR Excite Me: The Trouble with Normal

Apparently, it doesn’t get funding:
Why Medicine Should Care Less About ‘Sick,’ More About ‘Normal’
If you had died 50 years ago, your body would have stood a pretty good chance of serving science. In the 1960s, autopsy rates at US hospitals exceeded 50 percent. Pathologists weren’t necessarily looking for what killed people — they were taking [...]

23 Dec 2007

Why Lawsuits?: GPL/OSS License Enforcement

People often make the argument that lawyers file suits to get things done because they can bill it and get money from doing it that way. There is, of course, TONS of confirmation bias with so many lawsuits to accomplish so many different ends. GPL enforcement, I think, is a possible counter-example. The foundations litigating [...]