The book "Rigor Mortis" started out with, " It was one of those things that everybody knew but was too polite to say", immediately it grabbed my attention. In the first chapter I learned how blunt the author is starting with the first sentence about the common danger in truth. This book taught me that... Continue Reading →
After only reading the preface and first chapter of Rigor Mortis By Richards Harris, I was surprised by all the lies that hide behind scientists’ research. The biomedical research world isn't as perfect and correct as many people thought it was. “It also turns out that that scientists have been taking shortcuts around methods they... Continue Reading →
Chapter 1 of Rigor Mortis by Richard Harris brings into light and discusses how the medical industry has faulty research methods which lead to skewed data and results, as well as millions, or even billions, of dollars wasted on studies and research that do not have the scientific backing that they should. Contrary to what... Continue Reading →
Chapter one of Rigor Mortis really surprised me. If one scientist published a paper about a new break through, then when other scientists tried to duplicate that theory, and it couldn't be reproduced, the scientists still posted papers about their findings and that it worked. Like the process of transdifferentiation, where bone marrow stem cells could... Continue Reading →
"Simply too much of what's published is wrong."(1 pg.) This is what the author of Rigor Mortis, Richard Harris stated in his Introduction. It took me by surprise from the very beginning. One would think that mostly all of the products of Biomedical sciences and science in general would hold true, but that is not the... Continue Reading →
For this semester I have decided to steer away from the original project and do something different. I decided to join Dennis and Zabdi to go about this project in a different way. As a group it was decided that we would use the research we found and incorporate it into a game that people... Continue Reading →
With the beginning of the new six weeks, the JetSet team has begun work on our second deliverable, the design proposal. This past week, the team has been working on doing A LOT of research. Our group consists of three engineering students: Erin, Annalise, and Anjali. I am the sole biomedical pathway student. This posed an... Continue Reading →
