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The Fourth Estate of Health and Medicine

December 11, 2012December 11, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 150 Views Andre Picard, blogging, Darwin the monkey, evidence, health evidence, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, Malcolm Gladwell, media, Mitch Waldrop, news, newspapers, public health, science, social media, Stan Glantz, Steven Johnson, the fourth estate, tobacco control

Journalists occupy an important, yet often unacknowledged, role in the health system by providing a dispassionate account of the system’s

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Jonah Lehrer and the Crisis of Knowledge Synthesis

August 22, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 142 Views complex adaptive systems, complexity, Jonah Lehrer, journalism, knowledge translation, Malcolm Gladwell, science, science writing, Steven Johnson, tipping point

Jonah Lehrer is/was as big as it gets in science writing and two weeks ago proved the adage that the

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How Serious Are We About Learning?

July 26, 2012October 1, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 885 Views behaviour change, Dan Pink, discovery, education, innovation, Jonah Lehrer, knowledge integration, learning, mindfulness, organizational change, psychology, public health, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, social innovation, social systems, Steven Johnson, systems thinking, Toronto, University of Toronto

When journalist and book author Daniel Pink tweeted the above image the other day it provoked thinking about what real

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