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 Am I Going to Need a Smaller Plate? In Which I Juggle a New Weight Loss Trial & Old Systematic ReviewsRead more
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Science Communication Google Scholar Risks and AlternativesRead more
I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our…
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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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Bias Is Gender Bias the Elephant in the “Endangered Physician-Scientist” Room?Read more
This, in 2008: Women make up an ever-increasing fraction of the students who train to become biomedical scientists, but their…
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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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Bias Can Anything Really Stop the Science Spin Snowball?Read more
With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be…
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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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Science Communication “Destructo-Critics” and Mean Bloggers: The StudyRead more
A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed…
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Reproducibility Why Don’t We Do More Visualizations of Methods?Read more
When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he…
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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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Peer review research roundup Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 2 (1990–2018)Read more
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to…
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Peer review research roundup Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989)Read more
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding…