“I hope that other women can benefit from my experience”, wrote Angelina Jolie of her double mastectomy. She showed great courage and generosity, sharing data…

There’s a lot of outrage about outrage storming around women in science and science journalism at the moment. And fear of causing…

Last year I wrote a post of “5 Key Things to Know About Meta-Analysis”. It was a great way to focus – but…

I’m a scientist who’s also a cartoonist. So I’ve got a pretty keen interest in scholarship and empirical research on humor. And I…

Hoaxes sure can stir up a lot of emotion, can’t they? We tend to have a quick reaction to them, and…

Scientists are in a real bind when it comes to peer review. It’s hard to be objective when we’re all among the peer reviewing…

In theory, science isn’t just self-interested. We’re all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and…

It all starts and ends with the patient. That was a strong message from the first day of Evidence Live. Trisha Greenhalgh walked that…

“Evidence based medicine: a movement in crisis?” That 2014 editorial by Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues echoed through the hallways leading up to…

We take mental shortcuts about research reports. “I read a study,” we say. We don’t only talk about them as though they…

P is for pandemonium. And a bit of that broke out recently when a psychology journal banned p–values and more, declaring the whole…

Sometimes, beneath the surface layer, an artist’s earlier rendition of part of a painting can be glimpsed. Something was replaced, changed…