I am in the habit of summarizing interesting articles as draft postings on my blog, in order to get the content of the article into my head. Generally, I don’t go on to fully polish and publish the summarizing post. But if I absent-mindedly hit the “publish” button when what I want is “save draft”, then I do end up publishing the post, without any polishing. This happened to my notes on a Wired article on the rise and rise of the placebo effect. It’s gone from my blog now, but if you subscribe via a reader, the disjointed sentences likely ended up in your in tray. Apologies.