THE FUSE

When I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, I had the great fortune to be mentored by Robert Rosenthal, who passed away in 2024. His courses on Research Methods and Statistics were epic, and his research was groundbreaking. For over 50 years, he studied how experimenters’ expectations can influence research outcomes and how clinicians’ expectations can affect patients’ mental and physical health. He taught me how to think like a scientist, and I am writing this article in his memory to honor his remarkable contributions to science and critical thinking.