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…
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Covid-19 First in Human: Covid-19 Vaccines & Tales of Phase 1 Clinical Trials PastRead more
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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Back in 2018, the authors of a then-unpublished systematic review fired a spin- and error-laced salvo at the Cochrane review of…
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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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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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Evidence Evidence-Based Vacation Should Totally Be a ThingRead more
I concede that there is a strong argument against developing an evidence base on vacations. What difference would it make?…
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Evidence Does Our Poor Remembrance of Things Past Doom Much Nutrition Research?Read more
Just how reliable are our memories of what we ate? How about what we will admit to having eaten? Questions…
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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 the emotional distress…
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Evidence Consumer-Contested Evidence: Why the ME/CFS Exercise Dispute Matters So MuchRead more
Sometimes, a dispute with a consumer movement comes along that has profound implications for far more than the people in it. I…
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Evidence The Dangerous Allure of Breech Birth at Home – and a Problematic New PaperRead more
At first glance, I thought I’d misunderstood it. I just didn’t expect to see a paper with so much spin about…
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Evidence Post-Surgery Thoughts on Evidence and ChoiceRead more
I had been losing sight, slowly at first, but later, scarily quickly. By the time I had my first surgery…
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Health The HPV Vaccine Should Be Preventing Cervical Cancer: Can We Tell Whether It Actually Is?Read more
The suspense is tough. Will the HPV vaccine reduce cervical cancer and related deaths or won’t it? It should, but this is…