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p-hacking
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Covering vascular surgery? Watch for selection bias in this database
If you cover medical research related to vascular procedures and conditions, you’ve likely come across studies using data from the…
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Panelists explain how to begin mastering medical studies
At some point almost all health care journalists will need to cover a medical study or two. When that happens,…
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Assessing the red flags in a study … annotated
I’m frequently asked on social media for my thoughts on a particular study. In this situation, I thought the quick…
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P-hacking, self-plagiarism concerns plague news-friendly nutrition lab
Some of the most difficult research to make sense of comes from nutrition science. It is difficult, expensive and labor-intensive…
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A guide to understanding why science is messy, hard and wonderful
An utterly fantastic long read by Christie Aschwanden at FiveThirtyEight.com, cuts to the chase very early: “Science is hard –…