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The FDA's role of ensuring that drugs are effective as well as safe is a keystone of the modern pharmaceutical industry, and one that we aren't ready to dispense with.

Every other weight loss medication had met with failure, and even success seemed unlikely to make a difference. Reference class forecasting steered me wrong. Oops.

A reply to Planned Obsolescence on the costs of caution. We need a moratorium on developing AI capabilities, but this is an important nitpick with an otherwise sound thesis.

Opioid painkillers are the strongest analgesic known to man. They have serious drawbacks when used to manage chronic pain. I have a proposal.

A brief glimpse into the future of assisted reproductive technology. We haven't automated every aspect of pregnancy yet – here are the technical issues standing in our way.

Meat Science™ dares to dream of a world where real meat is grown and harvested with no suffering, but there's one extremely ironic obstacle standing in their way - fetal bovine serum.

Oh boy, here I go blogging again.