“Generosity is giving more
than you can and pride is
taking less than you need.”
– Kahlil Gibran
This holiday season I’m going to focus on being (being with my loved ones, enjoying the moments of the holidays) rather than doing (I consciously decided NOT to send cards this year) and spend time with people rather than in front of […]

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“Generosity is giving more
than you can and pride is
taking less than you need.”
– Kahlil Gibran
This holiday season I’m going to focus on being (being with my loved ones, enjoying the moments of the holidays) rather than doing (I consciously decided NOT to send cards this year) and spend time with people rather than in front of […]

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“Generosity is giving more
than you can and pride is
taking less than you need.”
– Kahlil Gibran
This holiday season I’m going to focus on being (being with my loved ones, enjoying the moments of the holidays) rather than doing (I consciously decided NOT to send cards this year) and spend time with people rather than in front of […]

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I recently wrote about the discord between the American Epilepsy Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concerning the latter’s homing in on a meta-analysis suggesting that the risk of suicide among people taking any of eleven different antiseizure medications rises from about 1 in 400 to about 1 in 230. Now, the FDA […]

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When confronted with skeptics who refuse to stay silent in the face of quackery–I’m sorry, “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), a large proportion of which is unproven if not outright quackery–shruggies frequently ask, “What’s the harm?” I can reply that so many of these modalities are no more than elaborate placebos reinforced with magical thinking. […]

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