Every once in a while I like to do a piece on how real science works. The New England Journal of Medicine was kind enough to serve up a nice example for us this week.

Real science is hard. It’s time-consuming, expensive, and leads down many blind alleys. That’s one of the reasons pseudoscience is so alluring—anyone can do it. It doesn’t require an education, an R01 grant, or really even a grasp of reality.

So on to the current article. Heart disease is a big killer. Over half-a-million people yearly have the worst type of heart attack, called an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Coronary heart disease kills almost a half-a-million Americans yearly and around 300,000 people die of heart attacks in American ER’s every year.

So this is a pretty important disease. Here’s how it works…

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