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Mary Dan Eades
By Dr. Mary Dan EadesHow do you measure age? A 2022 study done by Peterson and colleagues at the University of Michigan aimed to answer the question scientifically by correlating biomarkers of aging with hand grip strength (HGS) with the supposition that HGS could become an easily measured surrogate...
Broken Science
October 11, 2024 article from ZeroHedge.Drug studies sponsored by drug manufacturers tend to report higher drug efficacy than studies not sponsored by the drug company, a new report published in the Journal of Political Economy on Oct. 7 finds."Multiple attempts have been made over the years to coun...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/f93A32_M1zAIn this bonus episode James Franklin interviews Anton Garrett about his connections to major figures in probability theory, particularly E.T. Jaynes and David Stove. Garrett used Jaynes's work on probability to solve problems in statistical mechanics during his doctorate ...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/sqneorlfV34In Episode 7, Emily sits down with James Franklin, an Australian philosopher and mathematician. James was a student of David Stove in the 1970s, and later, a close friend. Emily and James dig into Stove’s work on logical probability and philosophy of science, particular...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn 2019 I was attacked by a UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday. This newspaper has the largest readership in the UK, with many millions more who read the on-line version worldwide. The main accusation was that I, and Zoë Harcombe* were spreading misinformation about statins and chol...
Broken Science
October 1, 2024 article in Retraction Watch.Retraction Watch exposes a vast and resilient network of fraudulent academic businesses, led by the Academic Research and Development Association (ARDA) and its affiliates, that sell fake authorship, publications, and conferences."By searching for other en...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Z-2khxwiN7gIn this episode of Emily Unleashed, Dr. Edward Calabrese discusses his research on hormesis and the flawed origins of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model, which has shaped regulatory policies on radiation, chemical exposure, and cancer risk for decades. The LNT model assu...
Broken Science
September 26, 2024 article in Science.Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion. Many of Masliah’s studies are riddled with falsified Western blots images, used to identify proteins in brain tissue."Numerous images seem to have been in...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/_qETimu40okEmily Unleashed shifts gears this week, featuring a guest from the art world. Josh Vietti, a violinist and music composer, shares his journey of blending classical violin with contemporary music genres like hip-hop. Emily covers his journey to music as a profession and di...
Broken Science
September 3, 2024 article in Misinformation Review.Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers along...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Yv0yfVBioCQIn Episode 4 Emily speaks with Jay Bhattacharya. Jay is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, who focuses much of his research on the economics of health care. He was a voice of reason in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, first questioning the severity of...
Broken Science
August 26, 2024 article in Vox.Whether through intentionally falsifying data or through negligence, many instances of scientific fraud have led to hundreds of thousands, potentially even millions of unnecessary deaths. Should the researchers behind these fraudulent studies be held accountable?"While...
Mary Dan Eades
By Dr. Mary Dan EadesHow do you measure age? A 2022 study done by Peterson and colleagues at the University of Michigan aimed to answer the question scientifically by correlating biomarkers of aging with hand grip strength (HGS) with the supposition that HGS could become an easily measured surrogate...
Broken Science
October 11, 2024 article from ZeroHedge.Drug studies sponsored by drug manufacturers tend to report higher drug efficacy than studies not sponsored by the drug company, a new report published in the Journal of Political Economy on Oct. 7 finds."Multiple attempts have been made over the years to coun...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/f93A32_M1zAIn this bonus episode James Franklin interviews Anton Garrett about his connections to major figures in probability theory, particularly E.T. Jaynes and David Stove. Garrett used Jaynes's work on probability to solve problems in statistical mechanics during his doctorate ...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/sqneorlfV34In Episode 7, Emily sits down with James Franklin, an Australian philosopher and mathematician. James was a student of David Stove in the 1970s, and later, a close friend. Emily and James dig into Stove’s work on logical probability and philosophy of science, particular...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn 2019 I was attacked by a UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday. This newspaper has the largest readership in the UK, with many millions more who read the on-line version worldwide. The main accusation was that I, and Zoë Harcombe* were spreading misinformation about statins and chol...
Broken Science
October 1, 2024 article in Retraction Watch.Retraction Watch exposes a vast and resilient network of fraudulent academic businesses, led by the Academic Research and Development Association (ARDA) and its affiliates, that sell fake authorship, publications, and conferences."By searching for other en...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Z-2khxwiN7gIn this episode of Emily Unleashed, Dr. Edward Calabrese discusses his research on hormesis and the flawed origins of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model, which has shaped regulatory policies on radiation, chemical exposure, and cancer risk for decades. The LNT model assu...
Broken Science
September 26, 2024 article in Science.Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion. Many of Masliah’s studies are riddled with falsified Western blots images, used to identify proteins in brain tissue."Numerous images seem to have been in...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/_qETimu40okEmily Unleashed shifts gears this week, featuring a guest from the art world. Josh Vietti, a violinist and music composer, shares his journey of blending classical violin with contemporary music genres like hip-hop. Emily covers his journey to music as a profession and di...
Broken Science
September 3, 2024 article in Misinformation Review.Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers along...
Emily Kaplan
Welcome to MetFix What does the evolution of Greg Glassman’s methodology look like? We’re going deeper. We’re taking what we built with CrossFit and we’re sharpening it into a tool that can cut through the epidemic of chronic disease that’s killing millions and bankrupting nations. We...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Yv0yfVBioCQIn Episode 4 Emily speaks with Jay Bhattacharya. Jay is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, who focuses much of his research on the economics of health care. He was a voice of reason in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, first questioning the severity of...
Mary Dan Eades
By Dr. Mary Dan EadesHow do you measure age? A 2022 study done by Peterson and colleagues at the University of Michigan aimed to answer the question scientifically by correlating biomarkers of aging with hand grip strength (HGS) with the supposition that HGS could become an easily measured surrogate...
Broken Science
October 11, 2024 article from ZeroHedge.Drug studies sponsored by drug manufacturers tend to report higher drug efficacy than studies not sponsored by the drug company, a new report published in the Journal of Political Economy on Oct. 7 finds."Multiple attempts have been made over the years to coun...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn 2019 I was attacked by a UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday. This newspaper has the largest readership in the UK, with many millions more who read the on-line version worldwide. The main accusation was that I, and Zoë Harcombe* were spreading misinformation about statins and chol...
Broken Science
September 3, 2024 article in Misinformation Review.Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers along...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Yv0yfVBioCQIn Episode 4 Emily speaks with Jay Bhattacharya. Jay is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, who focuses much of his research on the economics of health care. He was a voice of reason in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, first questioning the severity of...
Broken Science
August 26, 2024 article in Vox.Whether through intentionally falsifying data or through negligence, many instances of scientific fraud have led to hundreds of thousands, potentially even millions of unnecessary deaths. Should the researchers behind these fraudulent studies be held accountable?"While...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/N70lTnyaWO4In Episode 3 Emily speaks with Pashtana Durrani.Durrani’s experiences witnessing discrimination against Afghan refugees motivated her to start LEARN Afghanistan in 2018. The Non-Profit Organization provides quality education for children, especially girls in Afghanistan...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/CG7Ly9ZC-m8In Episode 2 Emily is joined by Dr. Drew Pinsky.As a 4th year med student at the University of California in the 1980s, Dr. Drew became a regular guest on the radio show "Loveline," which catapulted his career in media. The show grew to the point of being nationally syndi...
Broken Science
August 30, 2024 article in The Wall Street Journal.A flawed study attracted grants, investments and other researchers who based new work on the faulty findings.“Salzberg, the computational biologist, and a team analyzed a handful of the cancer types and didn’t find most of the bacteria reported ...
Emily Kaplan
August 28, 2024 podcast from Evolution of Medicine.James Maskell of the Evolution of Medicine podcast speaks with Emily Kaplan on various topics relating to the impact of broken science on the field of healthcare. Listen...
Bob Kaplan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NBOR4gAzwwJOURNAL CLUB #2 PREVIEWConducted July 25, 2024, this meeting of the BSI Journal Club explored the 2014 study "Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population" pub...
Emily Unleashed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B72JZNkOfkComing August 28th!This episodic series from BSI's Emily Kaplan aims to change our collective conversation through art and science.Stay tuned for more....
Bob Kaplan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NBOR4gAzwwJOURNAL CLUB #2 PREVIEWConducted July 25, 2024, this meeting of the BSI Journal Club explored the 2014 study "Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population" pub...
Emily Unleashed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B72JZNkOfkComing August 28th!This episodic series from BSI's Emily Kaplan aims to change our collective conversation through art and science.Stay tuned for more....
Emily Kaplan
With Emily Kaplan and Jan Jekielek.July 11, 2024 video by the Epoch Times.Epoch TV interview with BSI’s Emily Kaplan on their show American Thought Leaders with Jan Jekielek. Emily and Jan touched on many topics at the heart of BSI including scientific misconduct, pharmaceutical industry influence...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerIn October of 2023, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published Red meat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study of United States females and males. It was authored by Walter Willett, a prominent professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan Schoo...
Broken Science
April 17, 2024 article from The Guardian.The American Diabetes Association takes millions from companies that stand to profit from our reliance on drugs. Is that affecting their guidance?.“Numerous nutritional studies have shown that diabetes can be reversed through a strict diet low in carbohydra...
Greg Glassman
In March 2020, while still serving as CrossFit CEO, Greg Glassman deliverd a version of a talk he had delivered during grand rounds at medical schools around the country. Greg Glassman divides various common causes of death into five categories: chronic, microbic, genetic, kinetic, or toxic. The chr...
Broken Science
May 2, 2024 article from The Guardian.The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes.“What a great opportunity a trial would have been to expose the inner workings of the ADA, the patient advocacy organization up to its eyeballs in big-busi...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerIn the 1964 suspense film 36 hours, U.S. Army Major Jefferson Pike (played by James Garner), is kidnapped by Nazis on the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Pike wakes up in what appears to be a U.S. Army hospital, surrounded by soldiers and nurses that all appear to be red-blo...
Broken Science
April 3, 2024 article by Sasha Chavkin, Caitlin Gilbert, Anjali Tsui and Anahad O’Connor in The Washington Post.By sponsoring dietitians on social media and funding their own studies, General Mills and other cereal brands are shifting the narrative away from the detrimental physical effects of a h...
William Briggs
By William BriggsA new study came out that claimed intermittent fasting is bad for you. This shocked a lot of people. Here’s one of the hot headlines: “8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death“.Ninety one percent? Dude. That’s a lot. Makes it sound l...
Emily Kaplan
On February 27th, BSI Co-Founder and CEO Emily Kaplan was interviewed by Dr. Ken Berry. During the livestream, the two discussed diabetes, misleading health studies, and issues with medical journalism.Ken D Berry, MD is a Family Physician, Speaker and Author based near Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. He ...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerOn November 30th, JAMA Network Open published Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins. The study has a lot of things going for it: A prestigious research team from Stanford Medical school, the growing popularity of vegan diets, and the novelty of id...
Emily Unleashed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B72JZNkOfkComing August 28th!This episodic series from BSI's Emily Kaplan aims to change our collective conversation through art and science.Stay tuned for more....
Greg Glassman
In early May 2024, Greg Glassman hosted a group of friends for tacos and an informal presentation of what science is, and the problems with the science of today.Greg centered the talk around explaining the basics of the scientific process of turning observations into measurements, developing models ...
Emily Kaplan
With Emily Kaplan and Jan Jekielek.July 11, 2024 video by the Epoch Times.Epoch TV interview with BSI’s Emily Kaplan on their show American Thought Leaders with Jan Jekielek. Emily and Jan touched on many topics at the heart of BSI including scientific misconduct, pharmaceutical industry influence...
Broken Science
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion.In this third and final part the conversation revolves around the validation and impact of scientific models, emphasizing that their predictive strength is the primary measure of their u...
Broken Science
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion.This second part starts with Gerd Gigerenzer discussing the evolution and interpretations of probability, emphasizing its connection to human beliefs and societal contexts. He explains t...
Anthony Garrett
By Anton GarrettHow should scientists use statistical methods to do practical data analysis? There are differing schools of thought, and in the main division between them I am a Bayesian rather than a frequentist. Unfortunately the word ‘Bayesian’ is itself in dispute, for frequentists often con...
Broken Science
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion.Greg Glassman started the conversation with mention of the 1927 Solvay Conference, where revolutionary ideas in physics and quantum theory were debated. Most took an ontological perspect...
Anthony Garrett
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Anthony Garrett delivers a comprehensive lecture, touching on several major themes centered around the principles of probability, scientific methods, and the philosophical underpinnings of science. He discusses his academic journey, encounters with prominent figures l...
Gerd Gigerenzer
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 At his talk at the Broken Science Epistemology Camp in March 2024, psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer addresses what he calls ‘mindless statistics.’ Rather than think critically about the implications, impact, and meaning of studies, researchers are stuck in a system wh...
Greg Glassman
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Greg Glassman kicked off the 2024 BSI Epistemology Camp with this presentation. Greg’s talk centers around the ‘breaking point’ from modern science to post modern science. Condemning the rise in popularity of philosophers of science like Karl Popper, Paul Feyera...
William Briggs
By William BriggsStick with me on this not-so-easy subject, because I’m going to reveal a trick used to make you “Follow the Science!”Belief is an act. Uncertainty is a state. Decision is a choice. Probability is a calculation. There is no difference between belief and decision in the sense th...
Broken Science
September 2012 book by Sharon Bertsch.Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the controversial theorem of Bayes' rule, and the human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into roughly its modern form by French scientist Pierre ...
Emily Unleashed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B72JZNkOfkComing August 28th!This episodic series from BSI's Emily Kaplan aims to change our collective conversation through art and science.Stay tuned for more....
Broken Science
October 2024 documentary from BabyBroccoli.This 2022 documentary follows the life of Victor Ninov, who tried to fake an element during the race to create the heavy elements of the periodic table.Centered around Ninov’s story, this 80 minute video gives a wonderful overview of the history of artifi...
Greg Glassman
In early May 2024, Greg Glassman hosted a group of friends for tacos and an informal presentation of what science is, and the problems with the science of today.Greg centered the talk around explaining the basics of the scientific process of turning observations into measurements, developing models ...
Emily Kaplan
With Emily Kaplan and Jan Jekielek.July 11, 2024 video by the Epoch Times.Epoch TV interview with BSI’s Emily Kaplan on their show American Thought Leaders with Jan Jekielek. Emily and Jan touched on many topics at the heart of BSI including scientific misconduct, pharmaceutical industry influence...
Broken Science
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion.In this third and final part the conversation revolves around the validation and impact of scientific models, emphasizing that their predictive strength is the primary measure of their u...
Broken Science
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion.This second part starts with Gerd Gigerenzer discussing the evolution and interpretations of probability, emphasizing its connection to human beliefs and societal contexts. He explains t...
Broken Science
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion.Greg Glassman started the conversation with mention of the 1927 Solvay Conference, where revolutionary ideas in physics and quantum theory were debated. Most took an ontological perspect...
Anthony Garrett
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Anthony Garrett delivers a comprehensive lecture, touching on several major themes centered around the principles of probability, scientific methods, and the philosophical underpinnings of science. He discusses his academic journey, encounters with prominent figures l...
Gerd Gigerenzer
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 At his talk at the Broken Science Epistemology Camp in March 2024, psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer addresses what he calls ‘mindless statistics.’ Rather than think critically about the implications, impact, and meaning of studies, researchers are stuck in a system wh...
Greg Glassman
bSI Epistemology Camp: 2024 Greg Glassman kicked off the 2024 BSI Epistemology Camp with this presentation. Greg’s talk centers around the ‘breaking point’ from modern science to post modern science. Condemning the rise in popularity of philosophers of science like Karl Popper, Paul Feyera...
Emily Kaplan
On February 15th, Co-founder and CEO of The Broken Science Initiative, Emily Kaplan, went onto the B FIT Podcast with Connor Murphy. Connor Murphy is a celebrity trainer, Crossfit seminar staff, and trainer at Big Night Fitness.On the show Emily dives into the fundamentals of the initiative. From th...
Broken Science
Heuristic decision making refers to mental shortcuts or 'rules of thumb' used by individuals to make swift decisions, particularly under pressure or when there is a lack of detailed information. This type of thinking has been criticized as a shortcut, prone to bias, and “predictably irrational”....
Broken Science
October 11, 2024 article from ZeroHedge.Drug studies sponsored by drug manufacturers tend to report higher drug efficacy than studies not sponsored by the drug company, a new report published in the Journal of Political Economy on Oct. 7 finds."Multiple attempts have been made over the years to coun...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/sqneorlfV34In Episode 7, Emily sits down with James Franklin, an Australian philosopher and mathematician. James was a student of David Stove in the 1970s, and later, a close friend. Emily and James dig into Stove’s work on logical probability and philosophy of science, particular...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn 2019 I was attacked by a UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday. This newspaper has the largest readership in the UK, with many millions more who read the on-line version worldwide. The main accusation was that I, and Zoë Harcombe* were spreading misinformation about statins and chol...
Broken Science
October 1, 2024 article in Retraction Watch.Retraction Watch exposes a vast and resilient network of fraudulent academic businesses, led by the Academic Research and Development Association (ARDA) and its affiliates, that sell fake authorship, publications, and conferences."By searching for other en...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Z-2khxwiN7gIn this episode of Emily Unleashed, Dr. Edward Calabrese discusses his research on hormesis and the flawed origins of the linear no-threshold (LNT) model, which has shaped regulatory policies on radiation, chemical exposure, and cancer risk for decades. The LNT model assu...
Broken Science
September 26, 2024 article in Science.Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion. Many of Masliah’s studies are riddled with falsified Western blots images, used to identify proteins in brain tissue."Numerous images seem to have been in...
Broken Science
September 3, 2024 article in Misinformation Review.Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers along...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/Yv0yfVBioCQIn Episode 4 Emily speaks with Jay Bhattacharya. Jay is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, who focuses much of his research on the economics of health care. He was a voice of reason in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, first questioning the severity of...
Broken Science
August 26, 2024 article in Vox.Whether through intentionally falsifying data or through negligence, many instances of scientific fraud have led to hundreds of thousands, potentially even millions of unnecessary deaths. Should the researchers behind these fraudulent studies be held accountable?"While...
Broken Science
September 16, 2024 article in Forbes. The lawsuit has also been reported on by Reuters, Bloomberg Law, and others. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and Francis, and Springer Nature. Brought forth by a group of sc...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/N70lTnyaWO4In Episode 3 Emily speaks with Pashtana Durrani.Durrani’s experiences witnessing discrimination against Afghan refugees motivated her to start LEARN Afghanistan in 2018. The Non-Profit Organization provides quality education for children, especially girls in Afghanistan...
Emily Unleashed
https://youtu.be/CG7Ly9ZC-m8In Episode 2 Emily is joined by Dr. Drew Pinsky.As a 4th year med student at the University of California in the 1980s, Dr. Drew became a regular guest on the radio show "Loveline," which catapulted his career in media. The show grew to the point of being nationally syndi...
