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 The HPV Vaccine: A Critique of a Critique of a Meta-AnalysisRead more
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Evidence Yoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101Read more
A study piqued my curiosity in a news feed recently. Yoga could reduce depression symptoms, researchers said – but only if…
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Evidence What Does the PREDIMED Trial Retraction & Reboot Mean for the Mediterranean Diet?Read more
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 It was retracted from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on 13 June…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 Catch-22, Clinical Trial Edition: Protecting Women and ChildrenRead more
“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 WrongRead more
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 TrialsRead more
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-FourRead more
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 BankingRead more
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’ FateRead more
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 ReduxRead more
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 RevoltRead more
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 BackRead more
Scientists plotted in their labs, looking for a chemical target to stop the acid. The first lead was a hormone trigger for…