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ADHD: Making the Normal Pathological

I recently shared a post on my Facebook Page and other social media platforms where I wrote:

5 min readNov 3, 2020

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ADHD: Making the Normal Pathological

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Mohamed Ghilan
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Homeopathy in the Modern World

In a recent paper, George Vithoulkas argues that “homeopathy is not a therapeutic approach suited for a modern “developed” society, that…

15 min readMay 20, 2020

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Homeopathy in the Modern World

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Don’t Confuse Rigour for Thinking

I was recently listening to The Philosopher’s Zone podcast in which Bryan Mukandi, one of our medical ethics lecturers in the medical…

4 min readMay 17, 2020

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Don’t Confuse Rigour for Thinking

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Will the Liar Stand Up? Autism and the MMR Vaccine

What follows below is an excerpt from Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman. I read this…

4 min readMay 13, 2020

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Will the Liar Stand Up? Autism and the MMR Vaccine

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Mohamed Ghilan
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You Want to Prove Your Medical Treatment Works? Here’s a Way to Do It

One of the rotations I did last year was in rehabilitation medicine. Most of the patients were recovering from strokes, which as you can…

10 min readMay 11, 2020

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You Want to Prove Your Medical Treatment Works? Here’s a Way to Do It

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The Ummah of Iqra’ the Document is Now the Ummah of Watch the Documentary

On January 26th of this year, Nassim Nicholas Taleb published a short paper with Joseph Norman and Yaneer Bar-Yam titled “Systemic Risk of…

4 min readMay 7, 2020

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The Ummah of Iqra’ the Document is Now the Ummah of Watch the Documentary

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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

In a review article published in 2017 in Current Directions in Psychological Science, the authors take an account of available studies…

4 min readMay 5, 2020

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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

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My Weight Loss and When Calling Out “Scientism” is a Copout

Storytime.

9 min readMay 4, 2020

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My Weight Loss and When Calling Out “Scientism” is a Copout

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“Darren, You Are the Father!” | China and the Study of Viral Origins

When it comes to empirical claims, I have one main rule for me to consider giving them an ear: less rhetoric, more data. What this rule…

8 min readMay 1, 2020

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“Darren, You Are the Father!” | China and the Study of Viral Origins

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The Epidemiologists Got It Wrong, So I’ll Trust My Barber

Hindsight is a hell of a drug!

7 min readApr 30, 2020

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The Epidemiologists Got It Wrong, So I’ll Trust My Barber

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Mohamed Ghilan

Mohamed Ghilan

Husband | Teacher | Canadian | Neuroscience Ph.D. | Medical Student | Student of Traditional Islam & Philosophy | Writer | Podcaster

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