Yesterday’s uplifting emphasis at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting was bad research (“Bad research rising”). This morning’s motivational agenda focused…
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Bias Academic Spin: How to Dodge and Weave Past Research ExaggerationRead more
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Bias Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publicationRead more
What do the editors of medical journals talk about when they get together? So far today, it’s been a fascinating but rather…
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Evidence Vacation fade-out: Back to work with a thud?Read more
Work can wind us up. Vacations are supposed to wind us down. But just how much benefit do we get from…
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Science Communication Wassup, Wikipedia? Oh … wow!Read more
It’s one of the world’s most used websites – there are more than 20 billion page views a month. That’s hard to…
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Bias Nutrient X Prevents Disease? Sorting the Wheat from the BranRead more
It started, as many issues do, because we didn’t get enough roughage in our diets. Before dietary fiber gained currency in the…
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Bias The Hawthorne effect: An old scientists’ tale lingering “in the gunsmoke of academic snipers”Read more
It’s easy to see a “cause and effect” relationship where there isn’t one. Or overlook one that should be as plain as…
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Evidence Baby’s due, but might not have gotten the memoRead more
It’s becoming a spectacle of Diana-esque proportions. I can’t quite get my head around the fact that there is a ‘Royal Baby…
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Personal Absolutely Maybe: A blog that’s probably about evidence and uncertaintiesRead more
I’m a child of the ‘60s. That helps explain my fascination with creating Pop Art like this blog’s banner. There’ll be quite…