In a courtroom, the full power of the state comes down on an individual. No one should have to face that on…
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Bias Inching Closer Towards a Science Base for Justice
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Bias Biomedical Research: Believe It Or Not?
It’s not often that a research article barrels down the straight toward its one millionth view. Thousands of biomedical papers are published every day…
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Bias Statistical Significance and Its Part in Science Downfalls
Imagine if there were a simple single statistical measure everybody could use with any set of data and it would reliably separate…
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Bias Academic Spin: How to Dodge and Weave Past Research Exaggeration
Yesterday’s uplifting emphasis at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting was bad research (“Bad research rising”). This morning’s motivational agenda focused…
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Bias Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publication
What do the editors of medical journals talk about when they get together? So far today, it’s been a fascinating but rather…
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Bias Nutrient X Prevents Disease? Sorting the Wheat from the Bran
It started, as many issues do, because we didn’t get enough roughage in our diets. Before dietary fiber gained currency in the…
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Bias The Hawthorne effect: An old scientists’ tale lingering “in the gunsmoke of academic snipers”
It’s easy to see a “cause and effect” relationship where there isn’t one. Or overlook one that should be as plain as…