It can be a long, unrewarding slog to unpack the problems in a published paper. David Allison and colleagues talked…
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Evidence Correcting the Record On That Critique of the Cochrane HPV Vaccine Review
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Science Communication Free Speech and Journals’ Responsibility in Vaccine Debates
“Learn what they don’t want you to know.” That pretty much captures the conspiracy-laced journey into data you often see…
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Bias Scientific Advocacy and Biases of the Ideological and Industry Kinds
I think the main thing I learned – very painfully – in 20 years as a health consumer advocate, is…
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Bias Boilover: The Cochrane HPV Vaccine Fire Isn’t Really About the Evidence – but it’s Critical to Science
It was always a volatile situation. If it blew, it was going to be even harder to keep perspective through all…
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Health The HPV Vaccine Should Be Preventing Cervical Cancer: Can We Tell Whether It Actually Is?
The suspense is tough. Will the HPV vaccine reduce cervical cancer and related deaths or won’t it? It should, but this is…
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Evidence The HPV Vaccine: A Critique of a Critique of a Meta-Analysis
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 Yoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101
A study piqued my curiosity in a news feed recently. Yoga could reduce depression symptoms, researchers said – but only if…
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Science Communication Europe Expanded the “No Elsevier Deal” Zone & This Could Change Everything
A couple of heavy-duty battering rams have hit the journal subscription system in Europe. And they are so big, this…
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Reproducibility Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis?
Many studies are so thin on details, they’re unverifiable, unusable, or both. Many are too small, badly designed, or otherwise…
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Evidence What Does the PREDIMED Trial Retraction & Reboot Mean for the Mediterranean Diet?
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 It was retracted from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on 13 June…
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Listicles Building a Great Scientific Abstract: A Quick Checklist
It should never be a rushed afterthought. An awful lot is riding on the quality of scientific abstracts. Most readers will rely…
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Listicles An Author Rights Perspective on Scientific Editors
What should scientific editors be able to do well? We would all be able to agree easily on some basics…