It's ages since we had a journal club and I really miss it. I miss the weekly discipline of reading a paper knowing that I have to be able to say something intelligent about something new. I miss the chance to practice of critical thinking skills. I miss the differing viewpoints. I miss the opportunity for synthesis. I really miss picking holes in other people's data analysis techniques. The p-value problem. The What does the line mean? problem. The conclusion versus discussion problem.
So I started a club of my own. A singular, one-person Journal Club just for me.
