Posts by Michel Accad
Ep. 209 The Physics and Metaphysics of Fetal Heartbeats
Drs. Anish Koka and Michel Accad discuss the controversy regarding the meaning of fetal heartbeats and Dr. Koka’s latest Substack article on the subject.
LINKS:
- Anish Koka’s Newsletter
- Michel Accad’s Alert and Oriented blog
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Ep. 208 Ben Recht on the Humble Side of Machine Learning
Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and co-author with Moritz Hardt of Pattern, Prediction, and Action: A Story About Machine Learning soon to be published by Princeton University Press but already freely available as a pdf format pre-print here. We discuss his work and perspective on machine learning and artificial intelligence.
GUEST:
Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage
LINKS and RELATED EPISODES:
- AI in medicine: What’s hype and what’s real (YouTube episode with Anish Koka and Ben Recht)
- Ep. 187 That Bengladesh Mask Study! (with guest Ben Recht)
- Ep. 5 Normal is Fuzzy (with guest Saurabh Jha)
- Lecture by Peter Hacker on the claims of cognitive neuroscience (YouTube)
Ep. 207 A Conversation with Andrew Bostom
Our guest is Dr. Andrew Bostom, an academic physician also known as “The Researcher Brown University Doesn’t Want You to Know About.” We discuss his life experience as an academic physician with politically conservative views, his opposition to the pandemic response, and his recent suspension from Twitter.
GUEST:
Andrew Bostom: Twitter
LINKS:
- Andrew Bostom’s blog
RELATED EPISODES:
- Ep. 192. A Conversation with Viral Myalgia
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Ep. 206 Mattias Desmet on the Psychology of Totalitarianism
Our guest is Mattias Desmet, Professor of Psychology at the University and Ghent and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism. He discusses with us the phenomenon of “mass formation” and its emergence from a background of a mechanistic ideology that has gripped the developed world over the last 300 years,
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Ep. 205 Stanley Goldfarb on Taking CRT Out of the Exam Room
Our guest is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, author of the recently-released Take Two Aspirins and Call Me By My Pronouns, a book that details the intrusion of critical race theory and identity politics into medical education and medical practice. He is a former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and returns to the show to discuss his book and the new organization that he is leading to push back against the new trend.
GUEST:
Stanley Goldfarb: Twitter
LINKS:
RELATED EPISODES:
- Ep. 102 Curriculum Subverted: An Academic Leader Pushes Back Against Woke Medicine (with Stanley Goldfarb)
- Ep. 140 Amy Wax on Wokeness in Medicine
- Ep. 149 James Lindsay: Critical Race Theory, Post-Modernism, and Medicine
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Ep. 204 Maternal Mortality: Statistics and Realities, with Steven Calvin
Our guest is Steven Calvin, a maternal-fetal medicine physician who is currently serving on the US HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM). Dr.Calvin has 40 years of experience in the field and is the founder and medical director of the Minnesota Birth Center. We have a wide-ranging conversation discussing trends in maternal mortality, COVID and pregnancy, and the role of midwives in the ecology of obstetric care.
GUEST:
Steven Calvin: Bio at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and Minnesota Birth Center
LINKS:
- Studnicki et al. Improving the metrics and data reporting for maternal mortality: A challenge to public health surveillance and effective prevention (published in OJPHI)
- Studnicki and Fisher. Recent increases in the US maternal mortality rates: Disentangling trends from measurement issues (published in Obstretrics & Gynecology)
- Ameya Kulkarni. Maternal Mortality: Separating Signal from Noise (published in The Health Care Blog)
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Ep. 203 Why Non-Compete Clauses Turn Patients Into Property, with Amy Doherty
Our guest is Dr. Amy Doherty who was issued a restraining order from her former employer for allegedly violating a non-compete clause. She received the order a week after opening her new practice in an underserved area.
GUEST:
Amy Doherty: Practice website, FaceBook page, and personal blog
LINKS:
- “Divine Savior suit seeks to stop doctor from opening a Portage practice” (report in the Portage Daily Register)
RELATED EPISODES:
- Ep. 80 How to Rollback Bad Healthcare Laws (with Marcelo Hochman)
- Ep. 18 A Doctor Fights Against CON Laws (with Gajendra Sign)
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Ep. 202 Ian Miller on the Global Failure of Mask Mandates
Our guest is Ian Miller, author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates, a detailed chronicle of 24 months of arbitrary, wholly inconsistent, and grossly unscientific mask mandates.
GUEST:
Iam Miller: Twitter and Substack
LINKS:
- Anish Koka “The COVID Pandemic: Who Dunnit?” (from The Health Care Blog)
RELATED EPISODES:
- Ep. 187 That Bangladesh Mask Study! (with guest Ben Recht)
- Ep. 188 Jason Abaluck on the Bangladesh Mask Trial
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Ep. 201 Ali Mortazavi on RNA technology
Our guest is Ali Mortazavi, CEO of eTherapeutics, a UK-based computational biology company focused on the development of RNA technology. He shares with us his perspective on mRNA vaccines and the application of RNA technology to medicine in general.
GUEST:
Ali Mortazavi Twitter and company website
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Ep. 200 Public Health and Conservatives: Time for Affirmative Action?
Our guests are University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack and Robert Graboyes, Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center discussing the place of conservatives in public health.
GUESTS:
Harold Pollack: Twitter and Website
Robert Graboyes: Twitter and Website
LINKS:
- Harold Pollack: “Why Public Health Experts Aren’t Reaching Conservatives on Covid” (from Politico)
- Robert Graboyes: “Conservatives and Public Health: A Warm Welcome in a Cold Climate” (from Discourse Magazine)
RELATED EPISODES:
- Ep. 179. Political Conservatism: Cure to a Failed Health Care Liberalism? (with guest Shawn Whatley)
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