errors – Medical Lessons

A Note on ‘Trial by Twitter’ and Peer Review in 2012

Posted on January 5, 2012May 28, 2012Academic Medicine, Science, Social Media

Nature just published a feature: Trial by Twitter. The piece considers the predicament of researchers who may find themselves ill-prepared to deal with a barrage of unsolicited and immediate on-line “reviews” of their published work. The author of ...

Reading About Thinking (on D. Kahneman’s Ideas on Perceptions of Knowledge)

Posted on October 24, 2011October 28, 2011Ideas, Magazine, Medical Education

An article appeared in yesterday’s NYT Magazine on the hazards of over-confidence. The Israeli-born psychologist (and epistemologist, I’d dare say), Nobel laureate and author Daniel Kahneman considers how people make decisions based on bits of ...