Ep. 196 Taking a Stand Against Brain Death
Our guests are Drs. Paul Byrne a pioneer neonatologist and Dr. Christine Zainer, an anesthesiologist from Wisconsin. Drs. Byrne and Zainer discuss their involvement in the care of patients with severe brain injury, particularly those given a diagnosis of “brain death.”
GUEST:
Paul Byrne: Website
LINKS:
- “Dr. Paul Byrne: From preemies to end-of-life issues, one man has made a difference.” (article from Celebrate Life magazine by Rob Sample)
- Doyen Nguyen: The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation and Transplantation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics (Amazon link)
- Michael Potts, Paul Byrne, Richard Nigels Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain-Based Criteria for Death (Springer)
RELATED EPISODES:
- Ep. 35 Why Brain Dead Isn’t Dead: An Introduction to “Shewmon’s Challenge.” with Alan Shewmon, MD
- Ep. 45 Brain Death at the Bedside with Fred Rincon, MD
- Ep. 145 Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmires with Doyen Nguyen, MD, and Alan Shewmon, MD
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Ep. 195 Vaccine Myocarditis: A Personal Encounter
Our guests are Aiden and Emily Jo Ekanayake. Aiden had vaccine-induced myocarditis last June and he and his mother relate the experience and the consequences—physical, emotional, and financial—that they are facing to this day.
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Emily Jo Ekanayake: Twitter
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Ep. 194 The Psychology of the Pandemic Response, with JD Haltigan
Our guest is JD Haltigan, a developmental psychologist at the University of Toronto who joins us to discuss psychological factors that may explain the larger social phenomena in the pandemic response.
GUEST:
JD Haltigan, PhD: Twitter and Substack
LINKS:
- JD Haltigan. “Understanding pandemic-emergent personality and behavioral psychopathology.”
- JD Haltigan. “Pittsburgh: A City Study in the Successor Ideology.”
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Ep. 193 Tracy Høeg on the Anti-Science of School Closures
Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who has made remarkable research contributions pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC’s MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress.
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Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD: Twitter
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Ep. 192 A Conversation with Viral Myalgia
Our guest is the anonymous physician who provides very keen analyses of COVID-related issues on well-documented Twitter threads.
GUEST:
Viral Myalgia, MD, PhD: Twitter
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Ep. 191 The Myth of Statistical Inference (Part 2): At the Heart of the Replication Crisis
Our guest is Michael Acree author of The Myth of Statistical Inference, published by Springer earlier this year. Dr. Acree is a former statistician at the University of California San Francisco. This is the second episode in a 2-part series.
GUEST:
Michael Acree, PhD.
RELATED EPISODES:
Ep. 49 Many Statisticians, Many Answers: The Methodological Factor in the Replication Crisis (with Brian Nosek)
Ep. 57 Neither Fisher nor Bayes:The Limits of Statistical Inference
Ep. 190 The Myth of Statistical Inference (Part 1) Historical Background
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Ep. 190 The Myth of Statistical Inference (Part 1): Historical Background
Our guest is Michael Acree author of The Myth of Statistical Inference, published by Springer earlier this year. Dr. Acree is a former statistician at the University of California San Francisco. This is the first episode in a 2-part series.
GUEST:
Michael Acree, PhD.
RELATED EPISODE:
Ep. 57 Neither Fisher nor Bayes:The Limits of Statistical Inference
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Ep. 189 Paul Marik on Letting Doctors Be Doctors
Our guest is Dr. Paul Marik, an acclaimed academic leader in critical care medicine who has also taken controversial positions over the years about the treatment of patients, most notably recently about using Ivermectin as part of a treatment protocol for COVID-19. We discuss his career and the tension between the knowledge that comes from clinical experience and that derived from formalized clinical studies.
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Paul Marik, MD: Webpage and Curriculum Vitae
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Ep. 188 Jason Abaluck on the Bangladesh Mask Trial
Our guest is Jason Abaluck, Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management and one of the principal investigators of the Bangladesh cluster randomized trial of community masking that was just published in Science.
GUEST:
Jason Abaluck, PhD: Twitter and faculty webpage
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Ep. 187. That Bangladesh Mask Study! with Ben Recht
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Ep. 187 That Bangladesh Mask Study!
Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, who recently got hold of and analyzed the raw data from the Bangladesh cluster randomized control trial of masking which made headlines in September.
GUEST:
Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage
LINKS:
- Ben Recht’s recent blog post: Revisiting the Bangladesh Mask RCT
- Michel Accad Why N-of-1 is Enough
- Ep. 97 with Peter Klein on “Evidence-Based Economics: What the Doctor Ordered?“
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