Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white house. I met rachel at an event this year where i bought a book, the book she wrote, american tapestry the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. After hearing her talk, id bought six more copies. I bought them for all my family members and to give out as christmas gifts. Now after having read her book i can tell you it was a good investment. It helps me better understand my own family and many mysteries surrounding my own family. Rachel l. Swamss book is a comp
This there is no the readers health advice. There are no kind of vital conspiracy theories held Drug Companies are trying to kill us. This is a story about flaws and how we gather and synthesize evidence in medicine and i think the technical flaws in that important technical process are very well documented in the medical academic professional literature, and what im hoping to do is share that more broadly with the public in particular because there are very well documented programs which we have failed as a profession to fix. And so i think we need to help more than anything else. They are people like you, they are birds and lawyers and doctors and policy wonks and all the rest. So we will talk about problems in the three domains. We will talk about how randomized controlled trials we like to think our fair tests are not created alike. There can be Structural Design flaws the way we from trials so they are no longer fair tests which treatment is best. We will talk out marketing althou
-Messenger photo by Kriss Nelson
An old railroad crossing sign next to an abandoned elevator still stands in the ghost town of Slifer in southern eastern Webster County. -Messenger photo by Kriss Nelson
The school house in the ghost town of Evanston still stands. Some of the townás residents feature Evanston signs in their yards to help signify the town.
-Messenger photo by Kriss Nelson
An old railroad crossing sign next to an abandoned elevator still stands in the ghost town of Slifer in southern eastern Webster County.
At one time, it was not uncommon for Iowa to have a town every five miles or less.