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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Bias What a New Review Reveals About the Mask Effectiveness DebateRead more
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History The Weird Disconnect in a Debate About Whether Public Health is “Becoming” IlliberalRead more
“Is public health becoming illiberal?,” asked Katelyn Jetelina last week. I assumed it would be a classic case of Betteridge’s Law &ndash…
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Covid-19 The Limits of Those Reviews of Masks For All and What We Do KnowRead more
Have you noticed that you see so many pictures of people wearing face masks during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, but you don’t…
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Evidence The High Risk Methods of a New Systematic Review of HPV VaccinesRead more
Back in 2018, the authors of a then-unpublished systematic review fired a spin- and error-laced salvo at the Cochrane review of…
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Bias A Classic Case of Science “He Said”, “She Said”: How Psychologists Trying to Prevent PTSD Got ControversialRead more
Natural disasters have a lot in common with other major traumas, like life-threatening accidents and mass shootings – especially…
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Evidence The Resilience of Brain Training Hype: ACTIVE Trial ReduxRead more
It was definitely déjà vu in the media today. Reuters, The Times, Los Angeles Times, and more were back on the…
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Evidence Post-SPRINT Trial HeadachesRead more
On 11 September, some 9,300 participants in the SPRINT trial were sent a letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The letter told…
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Health The Angelina Effect and the Mixed Blessing of Celebrities and Risk AwarenessRead more
“I hope that other women can benefit from my experience”, wrote Angelina Jolie of her double mastectomy. She showed great courage and generosity…
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Health Airborne? Memories of Another Virus and Panic’s Rise and FallRead more
She started by asking me something like, “We understand you know a lot about AIDS, is that right?” “A…
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Evidence Is a Baby Aspirin a Day the New Apple?Read more
His first big clue came when people started hemorrhaging after chewing gum. Lawrence Craven did tonsil and adenoid surgery in his…
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Bias Resveratrol Hangover: Waking Up After Hypothesis BingeingRead more
Outbreaks of science myth-busting can be a bit of a puzzlement. The science behind a popular headline-maker might be a tottering house…
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Bias A Viewer’s Guide to Mammography Evidence Ping-PongRead more
You could get a very sore neck watching all the claims and counter-claims about mammography zing back and forth. It’s like a…