You could get a very sore neck watching all the claims and counter-claims about mammography zing back and forth. It’s like a…
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Bias A Viewer’s Guide to Mammography Evidence Ping-PongRead more
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Bias The Disease Prevention Illusion: A Tragedy in 5 PartsRead more
Act I: An ounce of “prevention.” “Prevention is better than cure.” Aphorisms like this go back a long way. And most…
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Bias 5 Key Things to Know About Meta-AnalysisRead more
Knowledge accumulates. But studies can get contradictory or misleading along the way. You can’t just do a head count: 3 studies saying…
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Bias Inching Closer Towards a Science Base for JusticeRead more
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 Biomedical Research: Believe It Or Not?Read more
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 DownfallsRead more
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 ExaggerationRead more
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 publicationRead more
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 BranRead more
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”Read more
It’s easy to see a “cause and effect” relationship where there isn’t one. Or overlook one that should be as plain as…