October 17: An Evening with Dr. Lorraine Ferris

... And then we doctors have always been a simple, trusting folk!.. As members of a free profession we are expected to do our own thinking; and yet the literature that comes to us daily indicates a thraldom not less dangerous than the polypharmacy from which we are escaping…

-Sir William Osler (1849-1919)  in his address to the OMA, June, 1909

Thank you to Dr. Lorraine Ferris for an illuminating overview of the dark side of “junk science.”

Interesting website on scientific integrity https://retractionwatch.com/the-center-for-scientific-integrity/