http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:09:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/#comment-164524 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:25:56 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/#comment-164524 Reminds me of something I learned from a friend of mine when I was an undergraduate at SUNY Stony Brook. He was taking a course on parasitology and apparently, most of the significant early work (pre 1900) in the field of parasitology came from a small but dedicated group of parasitologists who studied their parasite of choice by infecting themselves with it and logging the results. They then wrote their self-experimental results up in scientific publications that the other members of this group read. So there is a precedence (probably many if we looked harder at the history of science and medicine) for Bains' proposal. Reminds me of something I learned from a friend of mine when I was an undergraduate at SUNY Stony Brook. He was taking a course on parasitology and apparently, most of the significant early work (pre 1900) in the field of parasitology came from a small but dedicated group of parasitologists who studied their parasite of choice by infecting themselves with it and logging the results. They then wrote their self-experimental results up in scientific publications that the other members of this group read. So there is a precedence (probably many if we looked harder at the history of science and medicine) for Bains’ proposal.

]]> http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/#comment-164153 Fri, 09 May 2008 04:08:52 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/#comment-164153 Nothing has become of it. The first thing I'd like to do is get a few more people to do self-experimentation they tell other people about. Nothing has become of it. The first thing I’d like to do is get a few more people to do self-experimentation they tell other people about.

]]> http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/#comment-163893 Thu, 08 May 2008 20:12:10 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/05/07/scaled-up-self-experimentation-proposed/#comment-163893 What has become of your <a href="http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/02/04/web-trials-update/" rel="nofollow">web trials</a> idea? What has become of your web trials idea?

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