Robert A. Burton

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Non-fiction
A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us about Ourselves.
Scheduled for publication late 2012
ON BEING CERTAIN: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Novel
Cellmates
Doc-In-A-Box
Final Therapy

Short Story

Small Change
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The Golden Age of Neuroscience

Favorite Salon.com Articles


Mind Reader


Big Pharma says your mysterious pain is real
A Judge Without Empathy Is Inhuman

PBS's Latest Infomercial
The Dark Lesson of Bernie Madoff

My Candidate, Myself
Why "Placebo" Is Not A Dirty Word
Brain Scam

The Certainty Epidemic

Buff Up Your Brain

How Looks Can Kill

The Man Who Lost His Past

The light's on, but is anybody home?

AskDr.Bob


The End of the General Practitioner
Stress
Genetic Predictions
Who Will Go Nuts
Doctors Who Lie And The Patients Who Thank Them
Debunking Depression
The Worried Well

Other Salon Stuff


How Merck Stacked The Vioxx Deck
Requiem for a Poker Game