I hadn’t been aware of the term science populism until a video about it did the rounds recently. It was a light-bulb…
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Bias Science Populism, Medicine StyleRead more
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Covid-19 Digging Into the Evidence on Covid Vaccines in PregnancyRead more
Decision-making about drugs in pregnancy can be very difficult. Our illogical aversion to clinical trials in pregnancy means people making particularly complex…
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Bias What a New Review Reveals About the Mask Effectiveness DebateRead more
Last year I wrote that a day may come, when we have evidence about masks that’s so strong, so convincing, only the…
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Health 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the RailsRead more
When I saw the tweet, it felt like watching pinball for misleading public health hype – ding! ding! ding! – hitting target…
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Bias This “Waning Immunity” Argument Against the FDA’s Covid Vaccine Approval Is a Scientific QuagmireRead more
I sure don’t envy the people under all that pressure at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. They’ve been at the brunt…
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Evidence Systematic Evidence and the Covid-19 Stress Test: Pass Or Fail?Read more
You would think a time when we needed to be able to “follow the science” would have been systematic evidence’s shining hour…
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Evidence A Reader’s Guide to Safety & Adverse Event Data From Vaccine TrialsRead more
The competition for the “honor” of being the most confusing part of clinical trial results is fierce. I don’t think technical terms…
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Covid-19 Phase 3 Results in Sight for Some, While One Vaccine is Put on Hold: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 9Read more
We’re now into the ninth month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. And this is the…
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Covid-19 The FDA’s Epic Statistical Fail & Worse: Has Informed Consent Been Made Next To Impossible?Read more
Enthusiasm for an experimental intervention often gets the better of doctors’ critical thinking. I think that happened with the advocates for Covid-19…
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Covid-19 Vaccine Contrasts & Massive Volunteer Mobilization: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 8Read more
We’re now into the eighth month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. And this is the…
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Covid-19 The Clinical Trial Results Stampede Begins: Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 7Read more
We’re now into the seventh month since sequencing of the genome of SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. This is the second…
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Covid-19 Covid-19 Vaccine Race, Month 6: First Emergency Use & Phase 3 TrialsRead more
We’re now into the sixth month since the genome of the new coronavirus was sequenced. Twelve to 18 months is the soonest…