It sucks you in before you can even think – that dramatic statistic that makes a point you’re inclined to believe, with…
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Evidence The Power of Zombie Statistics: Systematic Review EditionRead more
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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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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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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…