- Aaron Cheng: On the emotional weight of a life in medicine. Thoughts of a newly-mintend hematologist which act as a good counterbalance to the popular fictional accounts. Feel free to peruse the few pre-2017 posts from the Infinite Regress archive for my own thoughts from that period.
- Fred Vogelstein: Enveda’s drugs from plants will turn pharma upside down. This is what Ruxandra Teslo warned us about a few months back.
- Joseph Howlett for Quanta Magazine: The Man Who Stole Infinity. On Georg Cantor, plagiarist. It does cause one to become more cynical, as we keep discovering that high-profile scientists built their reputiations on the backs of people with more scrupules and less need for attention. Taleb’s minority rule applied to sociopaths.
- Adam Mastroianni: The one science reform we can all agree on, but we’re too cowardly to do. It is to abolish for-profit scientific publishers, and I am all for it. But, people being people, I do not have high hopes that this prisoners' dilemma will have a positive outcome.