NHS Health Research Authority: "It is not clear what ‘personal gain’ the investigators stood to make from the trial and, in particular, it is not...
Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment...
Real-world studies no substitute for RCTs in establishing efficacy January 19, 2019 1 We live in the real world, so it is reasonable to expect...
yet another psychotherapy: "A large proportion of the identified studies treated patients suffering from anxiety and depression (see Table 1)....
I think people will be interested in this paper which shows a way of detecting and showing how citation bias can create unfounded authority. The...
I don't have anything to say on the topic but thought it might interest someone here....
Paper on statistical bias - a bit beyond me, but maybe of interest to others http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/9/181190
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jep.13010 Free full text Sietse Wieringa MSc DPhil Student, Scientia Research Fellow1,2 Eivind...
Moderator note: This thread has been split off from the introductory MEpedia thread here. My hope is that discussions in this forum can be less...
"Much of the social and medical sciences depend on randomised control trials. But while this may be considered the foundational experimental...
Peer review is a cornerstone of the academic publication process but can be subject to the flaws of the humans who perform it. Evidence suggests...
The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Human perception is often flawed, so the premise of EBM is...
Publication in peer-reviewed journals is an essential step in the scientific process. It generates knowledge, influences future experiments, and...
"Britons are eating 50 per cent more food than they admit, according to the first official use of a biological test to measure calorie intake....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/05/meditation-does-not-make-better-person-study-finds/ Yet more evidence of methodological flaws & bias...
As we've got a new forum, now when I come across an old annoying thing I thought I might post them up for newcomers' pleasure. There's been a lot...
Articles that highlight the problems/limitations of clinical trials in general (**=key article) Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean...
Int J Behav Med. 2017 Aug 23. doi: 10.1007/s12529-017-9682-z. [Epub ahead of print] Cross-Cultural Study of Information Processing Biases in...
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