- Probiotic cuts probability of pneumonia in half for high-risk patients. In related news, yogurt confiscated.
- Medical ghostwriting is research misconduct, argues this article. Think what this means: A common practice among medical school professors can reasonably be considered research misconduct. Via the Carlat Psychiatry Blog.
- Parking-space maximums by Tom Vanderbilt
Thanks to Anne Weiss and Mark Griffith.
“Parking-space maximums” reminds me that as a libertarian, I seek the staid, sensible middle ground between prohibition and compulsion. Do we really have to jump straight from banning too little parking to banning too much? Is the idea of simply letting the market decide how much parking is appropriate entirely out of the question?