Selling Certainty
In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?
In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?
Eric Boodman STAT Oct 2021 30min Permalink
Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated any.
Jenny Kleeman Guardian Sep 2021 25min Permalink
The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker Sep 2021 40min Permalink
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Nov 2020 35min Permalink
Being pregnant again means being willing to end it.
“For every other kid in the room, the science experiment probably amounts to just another classroom activity, but for the Nashes the project is a reminder of Molly’s own fight for life and the controversial cutting-edge medicine that saved her.”
Amanda M. Faison 5280 Aug 2005 Permalink