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 It’s a Start: The Amended Version of the Cochrane Review on Exercise and CFS
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Evidence Am I Going to Need a Smaller Plate? In Which I Juggle a New Weight Loss Trial & Old Systematic Reviews
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 Trials
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 Thing
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?
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 Controversial
Natural disasters have a lot in common with other major traumas, like life-threatening accidents and mass shootings – especially…
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Evidence Consumer-Contested Evidence: Why the ME/CFS Exercise Dispute Matters So Much
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 Paper
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 Choice
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?
The suspense is tough. Will the HPV vaccine reduce cervical cancer and related deaths or won’t it? It should, but this is…
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Evidence The HPV Vaccine: A Critique of a Critique of a Meta-Analysis
Battles over vaccine evidence sure can get toxic, can’t they? If you’re a diehard partisan, though, you can look for…
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Evidence Yoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101
A study piqued my curiosity in a news feed recently. Yoga could reduce depression symptoms, researchers said – but only if…