Plan S, the open access strategy from European funders in cOAlition S, gained momentum in 2019. However it pushed…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2019: A Year of Momentum on the Subscription Off-RampRead more
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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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Listicles 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019Read more
For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into…
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Bias Open Badges Redux: A Few Years On, How’s the Evidence Looking?Read more
A couple of years ago, I took shots at the way a small, uncontrolled study from 2016 of badges to encourage…
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Evidence The Power of Zombie Statistics: Systematic Review EditionRead more
It sucks you in before you can even think – that dramatic statistic that makes a point you’re inclined to…
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Evidence The Systematic Review is Dead! Long Live [insert preferred sweeping claim] !Read more
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…
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Science Communication Who You Gonna Search? Engine News for Systematic ReviewersRead more
Isn’t it almost always the way? I had barely finished my recent post about alternatives to Google Scholar, it seems to…
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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…
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Evidence Am I Going to Need a Smaller Plate? In Which I Juggle a New Weight Loss Trial & Old Systematic ReviewsRead more
It just seems logical, doesn’t it? Super-sizing your food can super-size you. So when I used to see claims that…
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Science Communication Google Scholar Risks and AlternativesRead more
I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our…
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Evidence A Double Whammy of Non-Good News About Non-Inferiority TrialsRead more
It started in June, with cardiovascular disease. Then August ended with another bout, but in cancer. It’s been a rough…
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Bias Is Gender Bias the Elephant in the “Endangered Physician-Scientist” Room?Read more
This, in 2008: Women make up an ever-increasing fraction of the students who train to become biomedical scientists, but their…