My only insight into the people involved is that I know of some of them and there are far too many of them. A serious project would not have more...
Sounds sensible from the extracts. Good to see something as measured as this in New Scientist. Not sure where Strain gets this from: For example,...
This looks pretty empty of content or value to me. Even the headline explainer does not make sense: A major new £2.2m government-funded research...
You shouldn't desist, but I doubt you will anyway!
Indeed. The problem with GRADE is that the pseudo arithmetic is applied strictly by organisations like NICE and Cochrane. NICE got the right...
I agree with the analysis the mechanics but my understanding is that the quest is for a definition of a specific source of bias relating to...
If a tool is just a list of things to remember that is fine. The problem with tools like GRADE is that they attempt to extract general rules about...
Designed-in bias?
What about treatment-inherent cognitive bias? All sorts of treatments might induce cognitive bias through more general means but it seems that...
Yes, well crafted.
I would be pretty sceptical about claims about reactivation of EBV based on antibody tests. This is an issue that has been knocking around for...
I don't think that is realistic. People die from Covid regularly, and often from hypoxia. Hypoxia will lead to brain ischaemia with an...
This looks like meaningless hype to me. Why don't they give us some meaningful background to the cases? Since when were single nucleus...
This really is a weird and ignorant statement from Fiona. My understanding of pacing is that you work within your capacity. If you discover, as I...
Well that is no problem to anyone other than those of you who have a vested interest in such treatments Mr Kennair. If we have no particular...
I was trying to work out what it was - and you beat me to it! A BiMSCID no less.
Editorials are routinely 'commissioned' without any payment though. I have been asked to do several. It may be that Newman did this for free...
I hadn't thought about this before but it seems odd that a freelance journalist should be writing for the BMJ. Traditionally medical journals have...
If I remember rightly Melanie Newman is a journalist with no real understanding of the science who has a strongly held belief in the mind...
My understandings that the level of security was part of a project with funding and collaboration by NIH. I don't think the finger is pointing at...
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