…data. Investigators always want to squeeze more publications out of a single study—that’s fine. What’s not fine is choosing to leave out information that raises questions about your conclusion. The…
…doctor would glance at the blood test results in his or her (but usually his) hands and tell me I was fine. They’d tend to avoid my eyes as they…
…if people specifically say “this is unpublished” then I avoid it and if they say “published” or give a citation, then I feel fine. It is a fine line ……
…on subjective outcomes, the unacceptable outcome-switching that juiced the reported findings, the hundreds of thousands of pounds spent by Queen Mary University of London to avoid the release of raw…
…of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine. These concerns deserve attention. (I previously posted a Q-and-A with Leonard Jason, the DePaul University psychologist, in which he discussed concerns about…
…science by Charles Weissmann Cold fronts linked to European H5N1 outbreaks (PLoS Pathogens) Simon Singh’s website and letter of support (thanks, Mary!) The importance of stupidity in scientific research (thanks,…
