Karaoke can damage singers’ voices and hearing
Roger Dobson
BMJ. 2003 Jul 5; 327(7405): 12.
PMCID: PMC1150966
Hell is a karaoke cruise
Gregory A Petsko
Genome Biol. 2001; 2(9): comment1011.1. Published online 2001 Aug 31.
PMCID: PMC138958
(Those two fall into the category, “Stating the obvious…”)
Dentures and deep time
Kevin Barraclough
BMJ. 2005 Dec 10; 331(7529): 1415.
PMCID: PMC1309703
Peer review or barbecue? The choice is clear
Paul C. Hébert
CMAJ. 2007 May 8; 176(10): 1389. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.070506
Cet article est disponible en français: CMAJ. 2007 May 8; 176(10): 1391.
PMCID: PMC1863532
Cadmium poisoning from a refrigerator shelf used as an improvised barbecue grill
Timothy D. Baker, William G. Hafner
Public Health Rep. 1961 Jun; 76(6): 543–544.
PMCID: PMC1929634
(Now who hasn’t tried that?)
Scent-sniffing dogs can discriminate between native Eurasian and invasive North American beavers
Frank Rosell, Hannah B. Cross, Christin B. Johnsen, Janne Sundell, Andreas Zedrosser
Sci Rep. 2019; 9: 15952. Published online 2019 Nov 4. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52385-1
PMCID: PMC6828808
This one falls into the category: “Problems we didn’t know existed…”:
A procedure for the withdrawal of an infant oral pacifier
W. T. McReynolds
J Appl Behav Anal. 1972 Spring; 5(1): 65–66. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1972.5-65
PMCID: PMC1310726
The Impacts of the Presence of an Unfamiliar Dog on Emerging Adults’ Physiological and Behavioral Responses Following Social Exclusion
Ilona Papousek, Katharina Reiter-Scheidl, Helmut K. Lackner, Elisabeth M. Weiss, Corinna M. Perchtold-Stefan, Nilüfer Aydin Behav Sci (Basel) 2020 Dec; 10(12): 191. Published online 2020 Dec 14. doi: 10.3390/bs10120191
PMCID: PMC7764974
Validation of a Seven-Factor Structure for the Motives for Playing Drinking Games Measure
Byron L. Zamboanga, Shannon Audley, Janine V. Olthuis, Heidemarie Blumenthal, Cara C. Tomaso, Ngoc Bui, Brian Borsari
Assessment. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Assessment. 2019 Jun; 26(4): 582–603. Published online 2017 Apr 16. doi: 10.1177/1073191117701191
COVID-19 research updates: does wearing tinfoil hats pose neurodegenerative threats to conspiracists and the general public?
I. M. Portant, R. E. Sults
Arch Toxicol. 2021 Apr 22 : 1–4. doi: 10.1007/s00204-021-03051-x [Epub ahead of print]
Correction in: Arch Toxicol. 2021 May 11 : 1. PMCID: PMC8060683
The squeaky wheel doesn’t get the grease
Douglas Waugh
CMAJ. 1992 Feb 1; 146(3): 392. PMCID: PMC1488257
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
Vicki Brower
EMBO Rep. 2005 Nov; 6(11): 1014–1017. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400564
PMCID: PMC1371042
(You’d think they ought to retract the first piece, but I couldn’t find one… )
Imitating Mickey Mouse can be dangerous
Deborah Josefson
BMJ. 2000 Mar 18; 320(7237): 732.
PMCID: PMC1117755
Strategy to diminish nonresponse
Don Eby
Can Fam Physician. 2017 Oct; 63(10): 753–754.
PMCID: PMC5638469
(Makes you wonder whether “nonresponse” isn’t already diminished enough…?)
Contemplating annihilation
Theodore Dalrymple
BMJ. 2007 Jan 27; 334(7586): 211. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39101.510023.B7
PMCID: PMC1782003
Changing attitudes on salivary secretion – a short history on spit.
J. R. Garrett
Proc R Soc Med. 1975 Sep; 68(9): 553–560.
PMCID: PMC1863991
How to Gargle
Hospital (Lond 1886) 1900 Feb 3; 27(697): 291.
PMCID: PMC5270052
VOMIT—victim of medical investigative technology
U Shaikh, Huw Lewis-Jones
BMJ. 2008 Jan 5; 336(7634): 8. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39435.572731.3A
PMCID: PMC2174745
It’s difficult being green (as in vomit)
Carl A Kuschel, Barbara Cormack, Phil Morreau
BMJ. 2006 Jun 24; 332(7556): 1510–1511. doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7556.1510-b
PMCID: PMC1482381
THE NEW NIGHT TERROR
L. Vernon-Jones
Br Med J. 1911 Aug 26; 2(2643): 464.
PMCID: PMC2331455
This last one is a letter written in 1911 (by a Londoner, naturally) about the need for authorities to insist that all of those new-fangled motorized vehicles drive on the left side of the road, rather than honking when they get to intersections. The whole piece is worth reading, and you’ll find it below:
Good Science Writing 