Recently I attended the launch of a King’s Fund paper in the rarefied setting of Portcullis House, an annex of the Palace of Westminster. The subject was “Bringing together physical and […]
BMJ Clinical Evidence
Kamal R Mahtani: Beware evidence “spin”: an important source of bias in the reporting of clinical research
Does the name Malcolm Tucker ring a bell? The Malcolm Tucker I am referring to is the fictional character from the BBC political satire The Thick of it. Tucker (played […]
Emily Sena: Too many drugs, too few medicines—the translational failure of animal research
374 interventions have been reported to be effective in experimental stroke; 97 were tested in clinical trials but only one of these was shown to be effective. The principle of […]
Peter C Gøtzsche: Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death
Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer (1). Based on the best research I could find, I have estimated that psychiatric drugs […]
Jon Brassey: Threats to traditional systematic reviews
For many years systematic reviews have been placed on a pedestal, relatively free from critical scrutiny. Frequently seen as being at the top of the “evidence pyramid” they have been adopted […]
William Cayley: Whither the communication of evidence in the social media world?
Notwithstanding the epistemological inconsistency inherent in discussions of “my evidence” vs “your evidence” (after all, if “evidence” is not about an objectively verifiable shared reality, then it’s not evidence”), I […]
Victor Montori: Transforming the communication of evidence for better health
In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the conference speakers discussing what they will be talking about at the conference. The […]
Evidence Live 2016: Whither evidence in the social media world?
In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the conference speakers discussing what they will be talking about at the conference. The […]
Evidence Live 2016: Promoting informed healthcare choices by helping people assess treatment claims
Iain Chalmers, Paul Glasziou, Douglas Badenoch, Patricia Atkinson, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, and Andy Oxman. In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the […]
Trish Groves and David Moher: How to get published
In the run up to Evidence Live 2016, we are running a series of blogs by the conference speakers discussing what they will be talking about at the conference. The […]