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Robert Burton

Robert Burton M.D. is the former chief of neurology at Mount Zion-UCSF Hospital and the author of "On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not" and "A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind." A former columnist for Salon, he has also been published in the New York Times, Aeon and Nautilus, and currently writes a column at the Cambridge Quarterly for Healthcare Ethics.

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Embracing hopelessness: Getting over our faith in reason is the only path forward

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Cogito ergo sum, baby

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Big Pharma says your mysterious pain is real

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A judge without empathy is inhuman

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PBS’s latest infomercial

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The dark lesson of Bernie Madoff

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How bad is pancreatic cancer?

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Should Johnny play linebacker?

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My candidate, myself

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Born that gay

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Why “placebo” is not a dirty word

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Where have you gone, Marcus Welby?

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We are family

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Brain scam

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Buff up your brain

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The certainty epidemic

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How looks can kill

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The man who lost his past

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We’re prejudiced, now what?

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The light’s on, but is anybody home?

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Requiem for a poker game

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How Merck stacked the Vioxx deck

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Stress

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Are we asking the right questions about hormones?

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