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Archive for July 2007

Ambient Wireless networks for SSA: a critique’s view

Posted by: arinbasu on: July 15, 2007

Sina’s post on wireless networks for health in SSA
Adesina Ileyumi is a good friend and has written a nice article in eHealth magazine about wifi in the context of health care delivery in Subsaharan Africa. Much of what he has written is also applicable in an Indian context as well. I have summed up what [...]

Do we have Darwin Awards for organizations? Check out …

Posted by: arinbasu on: July 14, 2007

Darwin awards are posthumous, typically for individuals who have committed some voluntary acts that they have been successful enough to remove themselves from the human gene pool forever. Doesn’t seem that the penchant to move ourselves from the human gene pool does not only exist at individual levels, but as well extends to organizations, as [...]

Evidence based medicine, postmodernism, and microfascism

Posted by: arinbasu on: July 14, 2007

What have bloggers written about it?
http://blog.meetingsnet.com/capsules/2006/08/24/evidence-based-medicinefascism/[References Roy Poses' blog where he counters the argument posited in article by Holmes et al. The post is here]
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/08/post-modernist-view-evidence-based.html[Roy Poses on the article. Great stuff]
http://saltosobrius.blogspot.com/2006/08/truth-power-fascism-and-silly-buggers.html[Martin Rundkvist: ]
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/08/damn_those_microfascists_demanding_evide_1.php[another scathing critique of the article]
http://www.badscience.net/?p=277