The question keeps coming up when I discuss the challenges facing the Cochrane Collaboration: What’s happening with open access for Cochrane reviews?…
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Evidence Paths to Full Open Access for Cochrane ReviewsRead more
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Science Communication When Journal, Scientific Society, and Community Values ClashRead more
A process I’ve been involved with at a journal recently exploded. It was meant to resolve a controversy about a publication, not…
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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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Evidence From the Lab to Evidence Reviews to Communication (Sicily Conference Part 3)Read more
The Sicily Evidence-Based Healthcare Conference was a treat, and not just because of the glorious location and hospitality. It was big enough…
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Evidence What’s Happening When Living Systematic Reviews…Stop?Read more
I’m not sure when the name “living systematic review” was coined, but it was fleshed out in an article in 2014 by Julian Elliott…
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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 Science Heroes and DisillusionRead more
“Never have heroes” – I’ve heard some version of that a lot in the last couple of months, from people disillusioned by…
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Bias Let’s Be Serious About Bias in Protocols of Systematic ReviewsRead more
A detailed pre-specified protocol is supposed to be the superpower of a systematic review: its contents literally put the “systematic” into review…
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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 The Renewed Debate About Blinding in Clinical TrialsRead more
Things can go really off the rails in clinical trials. Take the most influential trial of the Mediterranean diet…
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Evidence It’s a Start: The Amended Version of the Cochrane Review on Exercise and CFSRead more
It’s tough, watching this play out slowly, step by painful step. As I’ve blogged before, ME/CFS consumer advocates have been…