A very influential nutrition trial just tanked. It was retracted from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on 13 June…
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Evidence What Does the PREDIMED Trial Retraction & Reboot Mean for the Mediterranean Diet?
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Evidence Catch-22, Clinical Trial Edition: Protecting Women and Children
“I remember wheeling down this long, narrow corridor into my office, just a confused, scared mess, but I had to confront him.&rdquo…
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Bias Saturated Biases: Where the AHA Advice on Coconut Oil Went Wrong
Even for an evidence food fight – and those get plenty heated – the hue and cry about the new American Heart…
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Bias The Case of the Missing Neuro Drug Trials
The case of the missing neurological drug trials remains shrouded in mystery. Nearly 48,000 people took part in these trials for new…
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Health Down and Almost Out in Scotland: George Orwell, 1948, and Nineteen Eighty-Four
A tweet jolted me today. Doublespeak hit the news a few days ago, sending George Orwell’s final masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, back into a…
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Evidence Fertility Hedge Fund? Pros and Cons of Egg Banking
Freezing and storing your own eggs when you are not trying to get pregnant used to be rare. It was something…
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Bias Winning! Or Is It? The Science of Winners’ Fate
Between the Olympics and a tumultuous U.S. general election, wanting to win really badly is dominating the airwaves at the moment. How…
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Evidence The Resilience of Brain Training Hype: ACTIVE Trial Redux
It was definitely déjà vu in the media today. Reuters, The Times, Los Angeles Times, and more were back on the…
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Health Pylori Story #4: The Microbe Revolt
Could any life form survive in the stomach’s sizzling acid? Most thought there was no chance! And yet…there were occasional unexplained sightings&hellip…
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Health Pylori Story #3: Drug Wars – The Lab Strikes Back
Scientists plotted in their labs, looking for a chemical target to stop the acid. The first lead was a hormone trigger for…
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Health Pylori Story #2: Journey to the Center of the Stomach
For hundreds of years, doctors battled dim light that burned! Lenses and gadgets that showed too little! But when the breakthrough to…
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Health Pylori Story #1: Acid Attack
Digestion! Stomach grinds, fermentation sparked by vitalism… Even Pasteur believed it! But others said chemistry could do it. They found… acid. But…