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Hochstapler
Im Zug einer Recherche zu Wolfgang Wodarg habe ich über einen Welt Artikel einen interessanten Wikipedia Eintrag zu Gerd Postel gefunden:
Dennoch bewarb sich der 24-jährige Postel schon kurz darauf im September 1982 als Dr. med. Dr. phil. Clemens Bartholdy um eine ausgeschriebene Stelle als stellvertretender Amtsarzt in Flensburg.
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Unechte Urkunden bestätigten scheinbar seine Angaben zu Prüfungsergebnissen und Berufsweg, Andere Unterlagen fehlten zwar, da Postel aber zuvor Kontakt zu Amtsleiter Wolfgang Wodarg aufgebaut hatte und man sich sympathisch war, wurde er eingestellt.Unter Postel sank die Quote der psychiatrischen Unterbringungen auf Antrag hin von über 95 % auf lediglich 10 %.
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Auch seine Leistungen während der Probezeit in der Zschadraßer Psychiatrie wurden vom damaligen Krankenhausleiter Horst Krömker als „überdurchschnittlich“ beurteilt. Postel meinte hierzu „Wer die Dialektik beherrscht und die psychiatrische Sprache, der kann grenzenlos jeden Schwachsinn formulieren und ihn dann in das Gewand des Akademischen stecken“.
Best ever surf photos
My conflicts of interest
I confess, I worked with them 25 years ago but the headquarter looked completely different at that time.
The career is based on 3 things
Forbes/B Y Lee summarized the 3 things: grants, papers, kissing
In many academic settings, particularly in medical schools, your research career will live or die based on three things: how much grant funding you bring in to the institution, how much you publish in scientific journals, and who happens to like and not like you, not necessarily in that order. You don’t necessarily have to do all three to advance. For example, those who can’t really do the first two may focus on doing the third, which is otherwise called kissing up or playing politics. Note that none of these three are necessarily indications of how much you really innovate and contribute to science or society.
Fastest ever data transfer: 126 Petabyte per second
1 x ejaculation expells 250,000,000 sperm at a speed of 500 cm/s. Each sperm contains 3,088,000,000 base pairs = bits ~ 368 megabyte of genomic DNA
Each base pair takes 2 bits (you can use 00, 01, 10, and 11 for T, G, C and A). … And remember, you have to go from bits to bytes to get to an answer in megabytes. A bit is just a single unit of digital information, but a byte is a sequence of bits (usually 8). And because computers work in binary math, 1 kilobyte = 1024 (i.e. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 1024). 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes = 1048576 kilobytes = 1073741824 bytes. So you take the 3,088,000,000 bits and divide it by 8 to get 750,000,000 bytes. Divide that by 1024 and you get 376,953 kilobytes. Divide it by 1024 once more and you’re left with 368 megabytes.
Add 30,000 CpG islands x 8 bytes ~ 0,2 Megabyte
Also add 75 mitochondria x 16,569,000 base pairs ~ 148 Megabyte
So in total 516,2 Megabyte per sperm
250,000,000 x 51,2 Megabyte / 1024 = 126,000,000 Gigabyte = 126,000 Terabyte = 126 Petabyte
The Dr Fox Experiment
The Dr Fox Experiment, my all time favorite
The results are published in J Med Educ 1973; 48(7): 630-635.
Medical Honours
I am not convinced that medical honours are not doing any good (except some additional research money that may be welcome). There is a current twitter thread about the British monarchy which explains reasons to decline honours
Jon Snow: renowned journalist turned down an OBE Because he believed working journalists should not take honours from those they report on he said “I tried to find out why I’d been given it and was unable to get a clear answer or, indeed, to find out who had proposed me.”
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Francis Crick: The physicist who discovered DNA, was offered a CBE in 1963 but declined, one year after they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He apparently believed the British monarchy to be “out of date”
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L.S Lowry: He turned down knighthood and the offer of 5 British royal honours although he said it wasn’t for political reason he wanted his life to remain unchanged and dedicated to his art.
Postscripts
thehindu.com/sci-tech/science reported it first that marriage proposals have been placed in the acknowledgments
One such proposal published in a 2015 paper in Current Biology reads: “C.M.B. would specifically like to highlight the ongoing and unwavering support of Lorna O’Brien. Lorna, will you marry me?”
Another postscript in Global Change Biology is more worrying
Jos Barlow, a conservation scientist from Lancaster University in the U.K. and the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil, who led the team, wrote in the acknowledgement: “Some contributors declined authorship to maintain anonymity. We regret this was necessary and thank them for their important contribution.”
Explicit science
Wann sind Tiere am erfinderischten?
Womöglich gedeihen Innovationen manchmal ganz im Gegenteil besonders gut, wenn ein Tier genug hat: ausreichend Zeit und Energie, um etwa mit dem Schloss einer Futterkiste herumzuspielen. Neues ausprobieren kann vor allem, wer sich nicht rund um die Uhr mit Futtersuche, Wacheschieben und Revierverteidigung aufreiben muss, sondern derartige Verpflichtungen auch mal an Artgenossen delegieren kann.
Vermutlich ist es bei den Menschen auch nicht viel anders. Wenn man sich nicht rund um die Uhr mit Futtersuche, Wacheschieben und Revierverteidigung aufreiben muss.
Tour de France average speed
Using the new TdT R package, I have re done the speed plot
library(remotes)
install_github("alastairrushworth/tdf")
library(tdf)
editions %>%
ggplot(aes(x = start_date, y = distance / time_overall, color = edition)) +
geom_point(na.rm = TRUE,size=4) +
geom_label_repel(data = editions, aes(label = winner_name), size = 4, na.rm = TRUE, segment.alpha = 1, point.padding=1) +
xlab('year') +
ylab('average speed km/h') +
ylim(23,45)
Personalisierte CO2 Werbung im Deutschen Ärzteblatt
Offizieller Kraftstoffverbrauch für den Aston Martin Vantage V8 Coupé 380 kW (510PS) innerorts: 14,2 l/100 km, außerorts: 8,0 l/100 km, kombiniert: 10,3 l/100 km. Offizielle CO2-Emission kombiniert: 236 g/km. Effizienzklasse: G.
Nachgerechnet: Durchnittlicher Mehrverbrauch von ca 4,0 l gegenüber dem Mittel von 7,8 l. 1 l Benzin produziert 2,37 kg CO2 (was eher niedrig gegriffen ist ), 4 l extra auf 100 km gleich 10 kg CO2. Auf 25.000 km Jahresfahrleistung gerechnet, sind das 2.500 kg oder 2,5 t CO2 für jeden Aston Martin fahrender Arzt. Dabei darf jeder Erdenbürger nicht mehr als etwa 3 t CO2 pro Jahr produzieren, um eine Klimakatastrophe zu verhindern.
Wie war das nochmal mit dem Hippokratischen Eid?
Die Verordnungen werde ich treffen zum Nutzen der Kranken nach meinem Vermögen und Urteil, mich davon fernhalten, Verordnungen zu treffen zu verderblichem Schaden und Unrecht.
Priceless Prizeworthy
Maybe this paper has a serious background but this what the Ig committee really wants – making people laugh, and then think “Methane Emissions from the Munich Oktoberfest” in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
This study presents the first investigation of the methane (CH4) emissions of a big festival. In 2018 we measured the CH4 emissions of Munich Oktoberfest, the world’s largest folk festival, using in-situ measurements combined with a Gaussian plume dispersion model. Oktoberfest is a potential source for CH4 as a high amount of natural gas for cooking and heating is used.
I believe this is a better proposal for the Ig Nobel Prize than my own Lancet letter about the Octoberfest.
Can this be true?
Only 3 days ago I opened a new twitter channel. to accompany this blog. Only a few tweets later without any follower, Twitter has some first analytics: the audience here is married, rich people with completed high school who have an interested in dogs, comedy, sports and sciences. Whatever that means.
