This is all just brilliant
Very much not. As most of the public have never heard of Cochrane. I spent a lot of time before I caught on to the extent of their uselessness,...
I think Cochrane, under Tovey, and then even more so under Soares-Weiser, is a review author (emotional/career/marketing) support service. They...
I don't know if you can quote correspondence obtained via FOI, but there are lots of quotes from Tovey, including... "I am afraid that I am not...
this is my experience so far. They refuse to see that a badly designed study is just as unethical as a study which harms and/or inconveniences...
Yes absolutely. Was planning to stick to whatever trial questions were set by James Lind Priority setting partnerships. The methodological rigour...
I have applied for funding to develop a way of ensuring patients are involved in designing trials - specifically choosing the treatments to be...
Exactly this. It's also much more difficult to do good trials in this area. Also funders don't readily invest money in trials of non-biomedical...
I sit on a research ethics committee. I was astonished that at a group training day, one of the presentations about a case of a complaint made...
Why is Meerpohl being quoted in the Rucker article as saying "I find the decision to declare a ten-year-old review as sufficiently up-to-date...
They are very careful always to say their reviews are not guidance, they are unbiased (har har) evidence summaries. Which guideline developers...
I did ask this, and received no reply
In British media, a reverse ferret is a sudden reversal in an organisation's editorial or political line on a certain issue. Generally, this will...
my guess is reverse ferreting for her life. She blocked me on Twitter and then insulted me behind my back for daring to make a joke about her...
I think they are
They're blowing on it for a bit ;-)
I said this over and over to Hilda and she was determined it would go ahead. I paraphrase, but her response to me was "we're doing it whether you...
I had completely forgotten, but I made a comment...
This is the review that was abandoned at protocol stage - the one that Jo Edwards saw. White, Glasziou, Sharpe etc. were co-authors!)...
There's a guy called Andy Oxman, well known in Cochrane, who was at the NIPH at the time, who is also very close with Iain Chalmers. Chalmers is...
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