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Showing posts with label DC's Improbable Science by David Colquhoun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC's Improbable Science by David Colquhoun. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

We know little about the effect of diet on health. That’s why so much is written about it

DC's Improbable Science: Truth, falsehood and evidence: investigations of dubious and dishonest science says:-


"The question of what to eat for good health is truly a topic about "which so much has been talked and so little can be said"That was emphasized yet again by an editorial in the Brirish Medical Journal written by my favourite epidemiologist. John Ioannidis. He has been at the forefront of debunking hype. Its title is “Implausible results in human nutrition research” (BMJ, 2013;347:f6698.
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Thursday, 14 February 2013

DC's Improbable Science reviews Bad Pharma

reposted from: http://www.dcscience.net/?p=5538
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DC's (David Colquhoun) Improbable Science says .... "It’s weird that medicine, the most caring profession, is more corrupt than any other branch of science.  The reason, needless to say, is money. Well, money and vanity.  The publish or perish mentality of senior academics encourages dishonesty. It is a threat to honest science. Ben Goldacre’s book 'Bad Pharma' shows the consequences: harm to patients and huge wastage of public money. Read it. Do something."