methodology

  1. R

    How to assess if a research paper has used best-practice protocols?

    Hi A friend mentioned to me that they were considering using a new supplement* that others say has helped people with ME. She was confident that there was a good body of university-led research to support it. When I asked if she had verified that best practice was used for each of those...
  2. Cheshire

    How Firm Are the Foundations of Mind-Set Theory? The Claims Appear Stronger Than the Evidence (2020) Macnamara et al.

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797619897588?journalCode=pssa
  3. Sly Saint

    Article Psychology today 2019 - What is the scientific evidence for the direct harms of EMR?

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/digital-world-real-world/201911/does-mobile-phone-radiation-cause-symptoms eta: just found it interesting how they identify key methodological errors in the research, only to then replace with alternative theories with equally dodgy research evidence.
  4. Cheshire

    Unpublished data from Stanley Milgram’s experiments cast doubt on his claims about obedience

    https://www.psypost.org/2019/11/unpublished-data-from-stanley-milgrams-experiments-casts-doubts-on-his-claims-about-obedience-54921#.XdKiFe9cVAU.twitter
  5. Cheshire

    What science looks like (2019) Editorial

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0652-0
  6. Cheshire

    CORRESPONDENCE The PACE trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to WILSHIRE et al (2019) Sharpe, Goldsmith & Chalder

    Open Access Article here
  7. Cheshire

    Do antidepressants work? Jacob Stegenga

    Some interresting considerations about trials methodology (CoI, selectivity in publishing trials with positive results, gap between patients selected and real life patients, scales, what is used as a placebo...) Rings a bell...
  8. Cheshire

    The SMILES trial: do undisclosed recruitment practices explain the remarkably large effect? (2018) Molendijk et al.

    Open access here. Many similarities with the PACE flaws:
  9. Cheshire

    When a Placebo Is Not a Placebo: Problems and Solutions to the Gold Standard in Psychotherapy Research (2018) Blease et al.

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02317/full
  10. MSEsperanza

    Brian Hughes (2018): Psychology in Crisis

    Being too sick today to write the posts, hellos and welcome messages I would like to write, I instead asked the two nearest libraries to buy @Brian Hughes' Psychology in Crisis (just in case you don't know: most libraries have online forms for asking to buy a book ), and opened this thread...
  11. Cheshire

    The Times: Nobel scientist’s researcher finds humiliating error

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nobel-scientists-researcher-finds-humiliating-error-b58ltxwwp
  12. Cheshire

    Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims

    by Jonathan Shedler Ph.D. Some very interesting remarks about psychotherapy RCTs (many relevant to CFS trials). But I worry some people would agree with this, say evaluation is impossible (main argument of psychoanalysts in France for eg.) and take the opportunity to sell even worst...
  13. Cheshire

    Philosophical critique exposes flaws in medical evidence hierarchies

    Review by Tom Siegfried of a thesis by Christopher Blunt which analyzes evidence-based medicine’s evidence hierarchies. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/critique-medical-evidence-hierarchies
  14. Cheshire

    Criticizing a Scientist’s Work Isn’t Bullying. It’s Science.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/10/criticizing_a_scientist_s_work_isn_t_bullying.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top
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