Research Translation Podcast
Translating Medical and Health Research For All researchtranslation.substack.com
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The Single Most Important Trick in Medical Research (opens the original)
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Today’s episode explains the broader theme that ran through our episode from earlier this week. I wasn’t sure if I was clear enough, so here it is. Since it was just a quick audio I had ChatGPT turn the transcript into a written piece for the many written word addicts in our group (respect!). Naturally, I couldn’t help but heavily edit. RT is 100% reader-supported, and we want to keep doing it. You can help ensure that, by becoming a paid subscriber. Thanks. Here’s a trick that, once you see it,
The New Adult RSV Vaccine, the Death Star, and Promises Broken (opens the original)
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Apologies to my paid subscribers, who are getting this for the second time. I sent it out as a paid-only post, which was a mistake. I will be having paid subscriber-only content fairly soon, but I do try to make most of my content available to everyone, so I’m re-sending to all. Sorry for the inbox clutter! In third grade Marc Diaz explained to me, very earnestly, that if one’s hand was larger than their face, that person was technically deformed. Concerned, I held my palm to my face, carefully
The New Adult RSV Vaccine, the Death Star, and Promises Broken (opens the original)
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In third grade Marc Diaz explained to me, very earnestly, that if one’s hand was larger than their face, that person was technically deformed. Concerned, I held my palm to my face, carefully comparing. At which point he cracked the back of my hand with his own palm, sending my hand into my face and me toppling backwards out of my chair. Good one, I thought, ready to line it up on the next sucker. But he wasn’t finished. “Sorry sorry,” he said “I had to do it, so funny, everyone checks. But serio
What If Medicine’s Most Trusted Journal Can’t Be Trusted? (opens the original)
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Jeffrey Flier, former dean of Harvard Medical School, recently accused the New England Journal of Medicine of editorial failure. Flier and others were responding to an essay from the Journal ’s new Voices section about Jason Arday, a Cambridge professor who committed suicide after being outed for academic work and a life story littered with fabrications. The essay, which began “They are trying to kill us,” invoked white supremacy and called Arday’s lies irrelevant. I respect Dr. Flier’s opinion.
Two New Statin Trials the AHA Won’t Want to Talk About (opens the original)
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Once again the audio this week is for people who enjoy a bit more wonkiness. Below is what ChatGPT wrote when I pasted in the transcript and asked for a piece emulating my voice. And as always, I still couldn’t stop myself from editing pretty heavily. Enjoy! RT is fully reader-supported. To help me keep doing it, please become a paid subscriber. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. I’d finished my cholesterol series , a history of the Lipid Hypothesis, and a review of data on s
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