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A customer enters the Biopsychosocial Trial shop.
Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
O: We're closin' for lunch.
C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this trial what I purchased not six years ago from this very boutique.
O: Oh yes, the, uh, the Unblinded Pace...
The year 2026. A tumbledown shack at the edge of the woods. A white Toyota Prius rolls up and Dana Crawley climbs out. She knocks at the door of the shack. The door swings open to reveal Fox Wessely.
Dana: How are you, Fox?
Fox: Dana. It’s been a long time.
Dana: You look well, Fox.
Fox: No...
This is basically Nigella Lawson’s recipe, but with notes and options from my ‘researches’ (in the name of science, obviously). If you go with organic ingredients and use the non-sugar options, this is pretty much a health food.
I’m posting this in part because I’m a decent cook but a useless...
In honour of Dr Robert Forbes, who set some kind of benchmark for wilful ignorance from which we can all surely learn .. see this thread
[transcript of a partial recording made by a first year med student at an unnamed school, speaker’s identity unclear]
“Well, good morning and welcome, ladies...