Full reference: Boot, W. R., Simons, D. J., Stothart, C., & Stutts, C. (2013). The pervasive problem with placebos in psychology: Why active...
Full reference: Berger, D. (2015). Double-blinding and bias in medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy trials for major depressive disorder....
Highlights • In two studies, perceivers under-estimated female patients’ pain compared with males’ pain. • Perceivers’ pain-related gender...
Abstract Introduction: Sexual adverse experiences such as erectile dysfunction (ED), loss of libido, and ejaculation disorders have been...
Background Despite evidence of selective outcome reporting across multiple disciplines, this has not yet been assessed in trials studying the...
"Treatment harms to patients with ME/CFS" Quote: - Despite evidence of physiological and cellular abnormalities in myalgic encephalomyelitis...
When is lack of scientific integrity a reason for retracting a paper? A case study. Abstract: Objective: The present and past editors of this...
Background Several randomized trials have reported that graded exercise therapy (GET) is an effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome...
(I hope this is the right forum) Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist who has mad some mostly short and clear videos on physics. She generally...
I plan to submit these comments to the current version of the Cochrane review next week (sorry I took me so long to write these down - long...
Abstract Ideological bias is a worsening but often neglected concern for social and psychological sciences, affecting a range of professional...
Abstract Background Systematic reviews of health interventions are increasingly incorporating evidence outside of randomized controlled trials...
I have just seen this new paper on Twitter. A timely reminder that imaging and the subsequent analysis is not an exact science....
Background Research articles tend to focus on positive findings in their abstract, especially if multiple outcomes have been studied. At the same...
I would like to use this thread for a discussion on the effects of a lack of blinding in randomized trials, something that frequently comes up in...
from Introduction RA is defined as ‘the belief in superiority of an intervention and of the superior validity of the theory of change that is...
Assessment of risk of bias is regarded as an essential component of a systematic review on the effects of an intervention. The most commonly used...
[MEDIA] Thought this would be relevant to many ME/CFS patients. Glad this sort of stuff is getting more mainstream coverage.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma_Renstroem/publication/333340403_Health_and_Disability_Physicians%27_gender_bias_in_the_diagnostic_assessm...
Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in...
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