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 CFSRead more
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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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Evidence Science: A Method for Increasing the Number of QuestionsRead more
A long time ago, I first encountered science seriously as a health consumer advocate. And I thought of medical…
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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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Bias “True Patient Advocates Must Be Students of Evidence-Based Medicine”: An Impatient RebuttalRead more
Here’s the thing. If you’re a doctor who is a fervent advocate for a professional school of thought, and you feel the urge…
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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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Evidence “High Value, Low Wastage Research” Is More Than Just a Catchphrase NowRead more
I don’t recall hearing it before. But I’ve heard the slogan “high value, low wastage research” a lot the last…