a new study on pasta and an article on our broken health care system: what’s the link?
By Now, Most People Recognize that America has a Broken Health Care System Writing for MedPage Today, medical doctor David Nash recently published an article titled Our Broken Healthcare System: How Scared Should We Be? Toxic Political Atmosphere, Entrenched Status Quo Discourage Serious Discussion. After mentioning a book about that oxymoronical mess we call EVIDENCE-BASED […]
still more reasons you can’t trust big pharma
More Reasons You Can’t Trust Big Pharma Payoffs. Tit for tat. Quid pro quo. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. Whatever you want to call these “arrangements” (in many cases they are not direct cash payments), they cannot be considered anything less than outright BRIBES. And even though the problem is increasingly being brought […]
new “study” reveals what’s wrong with medical research
270 SCIENTISTS POLLED: HOW BAD IS IT IN THE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ARENA? If you’ve followed the section of my site filed under “EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE,” you are aware that for quite some time I’ve been showing you that medical research, as well as medical practice itself, is often anything but. A recent article in Vox (The […]
evidence-based medicine: who decides what constitutes evidence?
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: PICKING AND CHOOSING THE EVIDENCE Unfortunately, the title of this post could have easily been, ‘The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same.‘ According to his Facebook page, Dr. Brian Earp is a Yale-trained scientist who is both a research assistant at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a […]