May 9, 2016
What’s wrong with science news
“Coffee today is like God in the Old Testament”, says John Oliver, reviewing the positive and negative headlines over the past year or so. It’s excellent, if a little overblown in places.
On a related note, another site has fallen for the ‘cheese addiction/casomorphin’ hoax that we’ve seen before a few times. This time it’s Pharmacy Times.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
The boring scientist at the end of the John Oliver clip was actor BD Wong who played Dr Wu, gene scientist, in those other cautionary science tales Jurassic Park and Jurassic World.
9 years ago
‘Preregistration of clinical trials causes medicines to stop working!’
http://chrisblattman.com/2016/03/01/13719/
9 years ago