I'm not sure. The sentence "Journal owners and publishers, including Cochrane and Wiley, must respect editorial independence and cannot overrule...
Hi there - not sure if this is the right thread, but it refers to my appeal to Wiley (Cochrane's publisher) to investigate my allegation of...
Chris was my first (big) boss at Cochrane. I initially worked for the Pain and Palliative Care Group as an information specialist. We got on...
"Acting" is a good word for it
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 ;-)
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