I'm on board with this and definitely don't mean to take issue in principle with making subjective outcomes primary. It does seem to me that...
This kind of reminds me of the argument that Sharpe endorsed that was meant to raise fears about open data access: bad-faith actors will bog down...
Half? Where did you see that much?
Howard: """but the measures have generally been well validated and cover areas that matter to us and our patients and that we’d like to...
This is what I was remembering re Sharpe - the HOME study:...
It seems to me like the strategy has been to establish a nice little kingdom in the vacuum of CFS and these other conditions, and then expand the...
It looks to me like they are abusing the fact that 'predict' and 'explain' mean something different in statistical models versus typical...
Undiluted drivel. Caution: avoid contact with eyes.
@shak8 I took Japanese for 5 years in middle/high school. Kanji really is an absolute nightmare - considering the sheer brute force needed to...
I'd say this is in the 'overhype' stage. The telltale signs being (1) speculating that this could be a big deal for literally every acquired...
As usual no substantive argument. Just appeal to authority and name-calling people who disagree as bigots and extremists. An organism perfectly...
I agree. Sounds like a think-tank with a magazine. He can be my guest if it means a shift to a more sensible overall scientific vetting/publishing...
Right about when telling people to floss every day caused people to floss every day.
Isn't there enough evidence available to know that these things are really bad for kids? It seems like policymaking is the relevant arena now for...
It's not exactly clear what the sample size is but the number 4,500 is mentioned. If this is the sample size we might only expect ~10 to ever...
I guess I don't have the full picture but it strikes me as ghoulishly unfeeling to seek out people with 'advanced cancer' for the specific purpose...
sci-hub: https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033318214001935?via%3Dihub With just one treatment group that...
Saw this reported in my local paper. Vegetables treating existing cancer struck me as pretty silly magical medical thinking but, hey, they put it...
The phrase 'mental/psychological component', of an illness, is inherently meaningless: we call things 'illnesses', or whatever, largely because...
From what I can see this study design is built to look for plausible causes/interventions that would then need to be investigated in rigorous...
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