Chapter 3 of Rigor Mortis is about a disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis but it is more commonly known as ALS. ALS is a disease that affects your nervous system and weakens your muscles, which then affects your physical movement. There have been multiple studies and research trials on ALS to try and find a... Continue Reading →
Goodman and Ioannidis -Madison C.
Chapter ten, “Inventing a Discipline”, in the book Rigor Mortis, by Richard Harris, is about a man by the name of Steve Goodman and his research on research. Steve Goodman spent a majority of his career trying to figure out where scientists and doctors were going wrong with all of their medical research. In this... Continue Reading →
Is This Research Really Research -Madison C.
When reading the first chapter of Rigor Mortis by Richard Harris I was both surprised and interested by some of the information that I had read. For example in the very first paragraph of the first chapter Harris talks about how the majority research, that is published by scientists, is not correct. In the first... Continue Reading →
Staphylococcus -Madison C.
Hi my name is Madison C. I decided that I wanted to be in biomed in 7th grade, when we started to learn about pathogens in Ms.Deeter’s PLTW class. At that time I had my heart set on media tech, but then I got an assignment to research staphylococcus and the rest is history. I’m... Continue Reading →