My father forwarded an article to me this morning: Clinical trials flawed by biased reporting. It’s a write up of Bias in reporting of end points of efficacy and toxicity in randomized, clinical trials for women with breast cancer. This article is deeply, personally relevant. My aunt has late stage breast cancer. Forget a cure. [...]
I have a tumblr, Dismal Science, which I use to keep track of newspaper articles, journal articles, and blog posts on the topic of how scientific research is practised and the flaws and problems that have arisen. Before the archives grow unmanageable, I’d like to take a stab at organizing what I have so far. [...]
I spent last Saturday teaching neuroscience/psychology to 100+ kids via Splash. It was a survey course, so there were a lot of references and recommendations I made, and some of the kids asked me to put them all in an email. It’s a good list, so I thought I’d also share it here. Videos Video [...]
(A discussion at last Tuesday’s Iron-Blogger meetup reminded me of this review I wrote a few years ago.) On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill In War and Society by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman was written to explain a startling fact: throughout most of military history, up until the end of World War [...]
Over the last week, I’ve come across a couple new ‘science experiments’ – that is, experiments in improving science by encouraging the involvement of the online public. The first one, Petri Dish, is basically a Kickstarter for science projects: Right now, it’s skewed pretty heavily towards ecology and animal behavior. Which makes me curious about [...]
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