Claims of conflicts of interest have been one of the – let’s call it interesting – parts of being in debates…

Have you noticed that you see so many pictures of people wearing face masks during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, but you don’t…

The people who sign up for the first-in-human trials of Covid-19 vaccines are about to do our societies an extraordinary service. Most…

It pops up in my Twitter feed quite often, it seems to me. A scientist will buttress their argument that academics…

It was “a large, plain white building”, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Rue des…

Back in 2018, the authors of a then-unpublished systematic review fired a spin- and error-laced salvo at the Cochrane review of…

Plan S, the open access strategy from European funders in cOAlition S, gained momentum in 2019. However it pushed…

Things can go really off the rails in clinical trials. Take the most influential trial of the Mediterranean diet…

For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…

A couple of years ago, I took shots at the way a small, uncontrolled study from 2016 of badges to encourage…

It sucks you in before you can even think – that dramatic statistic that makes a point you’re inclined to…

No, of course, the systematic review/meta-analysis hasn’t died. But I kind of wish the flag-waving for the claim that its current…