Medical Research

Hi Tards - Evidence Charter Schools pick

Their students...
Read after the first paragraph
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A new story about charter schools admissions by Stephanie Simon at Reuters details how the reality of admissions at many charter schools is far different from the above rhetoric. She writes:
Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for parents to answer, including: How do you intend to help this school if we admit your son or daughter?
These aren’t college applications

Mildly OT: Being a grammar nazi cures alzheimers

People who have superior language skills early in life may be less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later, despite having the hallmark signs of the disease, according to research published in the July 9, 2009, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"A puzzling feature of Alzheimer's disease is how it affects people differently," said study author Juan C. Troncoso, MD, with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore

You misunderstood me

The research I've written up is important, possibly critical. But some people don't perceive it as such and are more impressed with dense language. Those people can serve as barriers to publication.
It's sad, but not bullshit.
And the sentence you offered was stiff enough to stand up and walk around on its own.
They're not seeking cold, clinical, impersonal people, although perhaps some doctors pick that up in school. Cancer does bother me, offend me even, and I have to express that.
Misha helped me realize that I could just tighten all the sentences instead of using rare words