Broken Science
March 07, 2024 commentary in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and a documentary by the Health Physics Society.From corruption in governing bodies to deliberate misrepresentations by researchers, this series takes the first steps to correct the scientific record in the field of c...
Emily Kaplan
Februaury 28, 2024 episode of the Dr. Drew PodcastDr. Drew and Emily call attention to the flaws in the current state of modern science. Emily and Drew discuss the Dana-Farber scandal, the cost/benefit of going to college, the do-or-die culture in science, and the lack of curiosity among journalists...
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
Februaury 21, 2024 Article by Gary Smith on Retraction Watch.Economist Gary Smith digs into a published study on green innovations that failed to disclose missing pieces of its dataset. Rather than presenting an incomplete study, the authors inferred values for the missing sections with trend lines ...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn previous articles (1, 2, 3, 4) I have been analyzing the FOURIER study in some detail, and I will continue to do so here. Not because this research paper represents some weird outlier—the worst, of the worst, of the worst research ever. But because it is an excellent case stu...
Emily Kaplan
https://youtu.be/CfIJjKEmrd4In this video Emily explains the difference between a Bayesian approach and a frequentist approach to analyzing statistics. A Bayesian analysis looks at prior probabilities combined with data to determine the probability that the hypothesis is true. A frequentist analysis...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerAmerica's trust in higher education has steadily declined over the last decade. In July of 2023, Gallup published a survey showing, for the first time, a majority of respondents expressing a lack of confidence in academic institutions. While there are many reasons for this growing d...
Broken Science
February 1, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Data falsification claims against Harvard researchers have now expanded to Khalid Shah, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical school. The claims include 44 instances of fraud spanning from 2001 to 2023.“The 2022 paper contains an image which Bik said...
Malcolm Kendrick
Explaining how a clinical trial can report success – when there is none.By Malcolm KendrickKey point: If the most important end-point is not mentioned in the title of a clinical trial, or in the abstract, it did not change. Always search for that which should be there – the dog that did not bark...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerOver the last few years, a series of high-profile retractions, resignations, and lawsuits have shaken academic science. In 2018, Brian Wansink, the head of Cornell University’s Food and Brand lab, resigned after the American Medical Association retracted six of his studies. Wans...
Broken Science
January 12, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Two weeks ago Harvard’s college paper reported data manipulation in multiple papers stemming from its own affiliated medical school, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Four senior researchers have been accused of forging data through “duplications...
Emily Kaplan
https://youtu.be/scSqDj0regUSimply put, a p-value is a measure of the likelihood that the results of a study are due to the hypothesis, and not simply a result of chance. It compares the “null hypothesis,” the idea that the thing being studied has no effect, vs the “alternative hypothesis,” ...
Broken Science
October 2019 article from Scientific American.The p value plays into the human need for certainty and has led to the reproducibility crisis in may fields. Some researchers want to tweak the system of analysis, while others want to overhaul it.“P values are regularly misinterpreted, and statistical...
Malcolm Kendrick
Misrepresenting the results of clinical trialsBy Malcolm KendrickIn the frantic information world we now live in, few of us can be bothered to pay close attention to…well, pretty much anything. Yes, we have our own areas of interest. We know a great deal about certain things and will happily spend...
Broken Science
In this essay mathematician Paul Lockhart makes the argument that math is an art form, and should be taught like one.This essay was later expanded into a full book.“So put away your lesson plans and your overhead projectors, your full-color textbook abominations, your CD-ROMs and the whole rest of...
Emily Kaplan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhC0-R5DL8On December 29, 2023, BSI’s Emily Kaplan sat as a guest on the Ask Dr. Drew podcast. Dr. Drew, who runs a private practice in Pasadena, is well known in the media sphere for his decades of work as a personality on radio and television.Among other topics E...
Broken Science
March 07, 2024 commentary in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and a documentary by the Health Physics Society.From corruption in governing bodies to deliberate misrepresentations by researchers, this series takes the first steps to correct the scientific record in the field of c...
Emily Kaplan
Februaury 28, 2024 episode of the Dr. Drew PodcastDr. Drew and Emily call attention to the flaws in the current state of modern science. Emily and Drew discuss the Dana-Farber scandal, the cost/benefit of going to college, the do-or-die culture in science, and the lack of curiosity among journalists...
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
Februaury 21, 2024 Article by Gary Smith on Retraction Watch.Economist Gary Smith digs into a published study on green innovations that failed to disclose missing pieces of its dataset. Rather than presenting an incomplete study, the authors inferred values for the missing sections with trend lines ...
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 ...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn previous articles (1, 2, 3, 4) I have been analyzing the FOURIER study in some detail, and I will continue to do so here. Not because this research paper represents some weird outlier—the worst, of the worst, of the worst research ever. But because it is an excellent case stu...
Broken Science
Februaury 15, 2024 Article by Elisabeth Bik. "A review article with some obviously fake and non-scientific illustrations created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the talk on X (Twitter) today. The figures in the paper were generated by the AI tool Midjourney, which generated some pretty...
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 Kaplan
https://youtu.be/CfIJjKEmrd4In this video Emily explains the difference between a Bayesian approach and a frequentist approach to analyzing statistics. A Bayesian analysis looks at prior probabilities combined with data to determine the probability that the hypothesis is true. A frequentist analysis...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerAmerica's trust in higher education has steadily declined over the last decade. In July of 2023, Gallup published a survey showing, for the first time, a majority of respondents expressing a lack of confidence in academic institutions. While there are many reasons for this growing d...
Broken Science
February 1, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Data falsification claims against Harvard researchers have now expanded to Khalid Shah, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical school. The claims include 44 instances of fraud spanning from 2001 to 2023.“The 2022 paper contains an image which Bik said...
Malcolm Kendrick
Explaining how a clinical trial can report success – when there is none.By Malcolm KendrickKey point: If the most important end-point is not mentioned in the title of a clinical trial, or in the abstract, it did not change. Always search for that which should be there – the dog that did not bark...
Malcolm Kendrick
A Long and Winding Roadhttps://youtu.be/7wBP0GoL9TkIn February of 2023 Dr. Kendrick spoke at BSI’s event in Phoenix, AZ. Malcom’s presentation recaps the history of the diet-heart hypothesis, the supposed link between cholesterol and cardiovascular death, and how drug companies have fooled docto...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerOver the last few years, a series of high-profile retractions, resignations, and lawsuits have shaken academic science. In 2018, Brian Wansink, the head of Cornell University’s Food and Brand lab, resigned after the American Medical Association retracted six of his studies. Wans...
Broken Science
January 12, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Two weeks ago Harvard’s college paper reported data manipulation in multiple papers stemming from its own affiliated medical school, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Four senior researchers have been accused of forging data through “duplications...
Broken Science
March 07, 2024 commentary in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and a documentary by the Health Physics Society.From corruption in governing bodies to deliberate misrepresentations by researchers, this series takes the first steps to correct the scientific record in the field of c...
Emily Kaplan
Februaury 28, 2024 episode of the Dr. Drew PodcastDr. Drew and Emily call attention to the flaws in the current state of modern science. Emily and Drew discuss the Dana-Farber scandal, the cost/benefit of going to college, the do-or-die culture in science, and the lack of curiosity among journalists...
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 ...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn previous articles (1, 2, 3, 4) I have been analyzing the FOURIER study in some detail, and I will continue to do so here. Not because this research paper represents some weird outlier—the worst, of the worst, of the worst research ever. But because it is an excellent case stu...
Broken Science
Februaury 15, 2024 Article by Elisabeth Bik. "A review article with some obviously fake and non-scientific illustrations created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the talk on X (Twitter) today. The figures in the paper were generated by the AI tool Midjourney, which generated some pretty...
Emily Kaplan
https://youtu.be/CfIJjKEmrd4In this video Emily explains the difference between a Bayesian approach and a frequentist approach to analyzing statistics. A Bayesian analysis looks at prior probabilities combined with data to determine the probability that the hypothesis is true. A frequentist analysis...
Broken Science
February 1, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Data falsification claims against Harvard researchers have now expanded to Khalid Shah, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical school. The claims include 44 instances of fraud spanning from 2001 to 2023.“The 2022 paper contains an image which Bik said...
Malcolm Kendrick
Explaining how a clinical trial can report success – when there is none.By Malcolm KendrickKey point: If the most important end-point is not mentioned in the title of a clinical trial, or in the abstract, it did not change. Always search for that which should be there – the dog that did not bark...
Malcolm Kendrick
A Long and Winding Roadhttps://youtu.be/7wBP0GoL9TkIn February of 2023 Dr. Kendrick spoke at BSI’s event in Phoenix, AZ. Malcom’s presentation recaps the history of the diet-heart hypothesis, the supposed link between cholesterol and cardiovascular death, and how drug companies have fooled docto...
Broken Science
January 12, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Two weeks ago Harvard’s college paper reported data manipulation in multiple papers stemming from its own affiliated medical school, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Four senior researchers have been accused of forging data through “duplications...
Emily Kaplan
https://youtu.be/scSqDj0regUSimply put, a p-value is a measure of the likelihood that the results of a study are due to the hypothesis, and not simply a result of chance. It compares the “null hypothesis,” the idea that the thing being studied has no effect, vs the “alternative hypothesis,” ...
Broken Science
October 2019 article from Scientific American.The p value plays into the human need for certainty and has led to the reproducibility crisis in may fields. Some researchers want to tweak the system of analysis, while others want to overhaul it.“P values are regularly misinterpreted, and statistical...
Malcolm Kendrick
Misrepresenting the results of clinical trialsBy Malcolm KendrickIn the frantic information world we now live in, few of us can be bothered to pay close attention to…well, pretty much anything. Yes, we have our own areas of interest. We know a great deal about certain things and will happily spend...
Emily Kaplan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhC0-R5DL8On December 29, 2023, BSI’s Emily Kaplan sat as a guest on the Ask Dr. Drew podcast. Dr. Drew, who runs a private practice in Pasadena, is well known in the media sphere for his decades of work as a personality on radio and television.Among other topics E...
Broken Science
Dec. 2023 article from The Guardian. After a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes Journalist Neil Barsky initially followed his doctors advice and began insulin injections. He also did his own research and found a community already aware of the root of the problem. After cutting out the carbs, he dropped h...
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 Berger On 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 ...
Broken Science
This editorial commentary by Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski discusses the dream of a universal method of inference in science. The great mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dreamed of a universal calculus in which all ideas could be represented by symbols and discussed without bickering. He...
Emily Kaplan
https://youtu.be/dBV3tYTUr5Q Emily explains the strengths, weaknesses, and ways to interpret observational studies. These types of studies can be useful for identifying links between things, and then generating hypotheses. However, the results of any observational study are strictly corollary, and ...
Broken Science
Oct. 2023 article from Nature. A research-rating system has identified gaps in studies that assess the connection between diet and various health risks. “We have evidence that underpowered clinical studies, lacking necessary controls to make sense of the data, are not helping. If funders do not...
Broken Science
2023 article from The BMJ. In this 2018 trial, participants lost 12% bodyweight through caloric restriction, and were then given a high, medium, or low carb diet. Those on the high and medium carb diets had to maintain a much more calorically restricted diet in order to maintain their body weight....
Broken Science
This literature review serves as an in-depth exploration into the metabolic underpinnings of cancer. The authors present a departure from conventional cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation and instead advocate for a multi-faceted approach, comprising of nutritional ketosis, metabolic dru...
Maryanne Demasi, PhD
“America has the highest chronic disease burden in the world,” lamented Robert F Kennedy Jr during a speech in April this year, prompting him to make a bold promise to the American people.“If I have not significantly dropped the level of chronic disease in our children by the end of my first...
Broken Science
Greg Glassman, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyang, and Andrew Zaragoza talk about how and why Greg created CrossFit and why Greg believes science is broken. ...
The Broken Science Podcast
Emily: Welcome to the Broken Science Podcast where we consider what happens when predictive value is replaced by consensus in science. This week on the Broken Science Podcast, we're revisiting an episode that I did for a podcast that I had called Empowered Health. In this episode, I interview...
Emily Kaplan
This episode is a continuation from episode 16 of our conversation with investigative reporter Gary Taubes, author of "Good Calories, Bad Calories", "Why We Get Fat", and "The Case Against Sugar." Taubes has written extensively on how dogmatic beliefs around a low-fat diet are flawed and how bad s...
Emily Kaplan
Gary Taubes is an investigative science journalist who has spent the last 40 years covering controversial science. Back in 2002, his New York Times Magazine piece "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" led Taubes to gain recognition as one of the few reporters taking on the challenge of questioning ...
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 Kaplan
https://youtu.be/CfIJjKEmrd4In this video Emily explains the difference between a Bayesian approach and a frequentist approach to analyzing statistics. A Bayesian analysis looks at prior probabilities combined with data to determine the probability that the hypothesis is true. A frequentist analysis...
Emily Kaplan
https://youtu.be/scSqDj0regUSimply put, a p-value is a measure of the likelihood that the results of a study are due to the hypothesis, and not simply a result of chance. It compares the “null hypothesis,” the idea that the thing being studied has no effect, vs the “alternative hypothesis,” ...
Broken Science
October 2019 article from Scientific American.The p value plays into the human need for certainty and has led to the reproducibility crisis in may fields. Some researchers want to tweak the system of analysis, while others want to overhaul it.“P values are regularly misinterpreted, and statistical...
Broken Science
This editorial commentary by Gerd Gigerenzer and Julian Marewski discusses the dream of a universal method of inference in science. The great mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dreamed of a universal calculus in which all ideas could be represented by symbols and discussed without bickering. He...
Broken Science
Gerd Gigerenzer's paper criticizes the lack of attention paid to effect sizes and the undue emphasis on null hypothesis testing in research. Despite the American Psychological Association's recommendations, effect sizes are rarely reported, hindering the computation of statistical power in tests. It...
Emily Kaplan
Induction Vs. Deduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8zKfk0RPVc In this video of the series, Emily breaks down the difference between induction and deduction....
William Briggs
By William Briggs We already saw a study from Nate Breznau and others in which a great number of social science researchers were given identical data and asked to answer the same question—and in which the answers to that question were all over the map, with about equals numbers answering one thin...
Broken Science
In 2016, meta-researcher John Ioannidis and his colleagues published a paperanalyzing 385,000 studies and the abstracts of more than 1.6 million papers. Their findings show that use of the p-value has been increasing within research. Ninety-six percent of the studies analyzed reported a significant...
Broken Science
Publish or perish, the null ritual, improper incentives, the inference revolution, illusions of certainty, statistical power…Gerd Gigerenzer looks back at trends in science to understand how the replication crisis came to be, particularly in his field of psychology and in biomedical science.“Psy...
Broken Science
https://youtu.be/8mxLebG1YLg Greg Glassman introduces the Broken Science Initiative, a new endeavor dedicated to exploring and disseminating knowledge about broken science. He discusses how a curriculum is being developed specifically for middle school students, with the goal of making intricate co...
Broken Science
This article by Regina Nuzzo takes a close look at the P value, considered the “gold standard of statistical validity.” Despite its widespread use, it might not be as reliable as most scientists think. She tells the story of Matt Motyl, a psychology PhD student who researched political extremist...
Broken Science
https://youtu.be/Z6VMcIp21mA Greg and BSI travelled to Hillsdale College to present for the Academy for Sciences and Freedom. Filmed April, 2023. Listen Transcript Greg Glassman: Good evening. How is everyone? How's the food? Good. Any CrossFitters in here? Crowd: *Cheers* Greg Glassman: It's g...
Broken Science
https://youtu.be/JLFDjRS_928 Summary William Briggs expands on Greg Glassman's discussion about broken science by providing examples of scientific misconduct. He focuses on an experiment conducted by Nate Brena and a group of researchers, which serves as an illustration of such misconduct. The exp...
William Briggs
https://youtu.be/K_zL6TTDk4k William's Slides...
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
Gerd Gigerenzer's paper criticizes the lack of attention paid to effect sizes and the undue emphasis on null hypothesis testing in research. Despite the American Psychological Association's recommendations, effect sizes are rarely reported, hindering the computation of statistical power in tests. It...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm Kendrick Medicine has always been a highly conservative profession. It is both rigidly hierarchical and highly resistant to change. In large part because those at the top are perfectly happy with the status quo. People at the top usually are. It was the status quo they rode to the top of...
The Broken Science Podcast
Science, once a beacon of objectivity, has become marred by corruption and misuse. At BSI, we are on a mission to unravel the tyranny of broken science and those who exploit it. In this week’s episode, we hear from Greg Glassman as he dives deep into the issues of broken science and addresses the ...
Broken Science
https://youtu.be/8mxLebG1YLg Greg Glassman introduces the Broken Science Initiative, a new endeavor dedicated to exploring and disseminating knowledge about broken science. He discusses how a curriculum is being developed specifically for middle school students, with the goal of making intricate co...
Broken Science
link to pdf Jeffrey A. Glassman Audio Book summary In "Evolution in Science: California Dreaming to American Awakening," author Jeff Glassman offers a deep dive into the California ...
Broken Science
In this article, Jeff Glassman argues that the validity of scientific models should be judged based on a hierarchy of conjecture, hypothesis, theory, and law. He provides definitions and examples of each, emphasizing that science relies on facts and measurements compared against standards. Glassman ...
Broken Science
link to book David Stove summary Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists is a book about irrationalism by the philosopher David Stove. First published by Pergamon Press in 1982, it has since been reprinted as Anything Goes: Origin...
Broken Science
link to book Roger Kimball Summary Do you believe that there is more scientific knowledge now than there was in 1901? Unless you are mad, your answer is “Yes, of course. There is vastly more known today than there was a hundred years ago. The proof of the expansion of knowledge is ...
Broken Science
The Enlightenment was a period of immense change. Science replaced a lot of superstitious beliefs, ancient traditions and religions were discarded and debased, and the goal of equality was first introduced. David Stove is a rare critic of the Enlightenment. He was not religious, yet he defended reli...
Broken Science
link to book Sabine Hossenfelder Summary In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science. Whether pondering black hole...
Broken Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3UNPOG3ZJ4 summary Interview with Sabine Hossenfelder discussing creativity in physics, physics and philosophy of science, new developments in cosmology, and more....
Broken Science
Read on Wikipedia Philosophy of science is a branch of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of this study concern what qualifies as science, the reliability of scientific theories, and the ultimate purpose of science. This dis...
Broken Science
https://youtu.be/zFOhV2tHTcEAt a CrossFit affiliate gym in Boulder, Colorado in 2022, BSI Founder Greg Glassman explains his his definition of what science is, and what it isn't. Transcript 00:00:00] Hi. Hi. So all CrossFitters, right? Anyone? Not. That makes this easy. So I'm back... No. I...
Broken Science
March 07, 2024 commentary in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and a documentary by the Health Physics Society.From corruption in governing bodies to deliberate misrepresentations by researchers, this series takes the first steps to correct the scientific record in the field of c...
Emily Kaplan
Februaury 28, 2024 episode of the Dr. Drew PodcastDr. Drew and Emily call attention to the flaws in the current state of modern science. Emily and Drew discuss the Dana-Farber scandal, the cost/benefit of going to college, the do-or-die culture in science, and the lack of curiosity among journalists...
Broken Science
Februaury 21, 2024 Article by Gary Smith on Retraction Watch.Economist Gary Smith digs into a published study on green innovations that failed to disclose missing pieces of its dataset. Rather than presenting an incomplete study, the authors inferred values for the missing sections with trend lines ...
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 ...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickIn previous articles (1, 2, 3, 4) I have been analyzing the FOURIER study in some detail, and I will continue to do so here. Not because this research paper represents some weird outlier—the worst, of the worst, of the worst research ever. But because it is an excellent case stu...
Broken Science
Februaury 15, 2024 Article by Elisabeth Bik. "A review article with some obviously fake and non-scientific illustrations created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the talk on X (Twitter) today. The figures in the paper were generated by the AI tool Midjourney, which generated some pretty...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerAmerica's trust in higher education has steadily declined over the last decade. In July of 2023, Gallup published a survey showing, for the first time, a majority of respondents expressing a lack of confidence in academic institutions. While there are many reasons for this growing d...
Broken Science
February 1, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Data falsification claims against Harvard researchers have now expanded to Khalid Shah, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical school. The claims include 44 instances of fraud spanning from 2001 to 2023.“The 2022 paper contains an image which Bik said...
Malcolm Kendrick
Explaining how a clinical trial can report success – when there is none.By Malcolm KendrickKey point: If the most important end-point is not mentioned in the title of a clinical trial, or in the abstract, it did not change. Always search for that which should be there – the dog that did not bark...
Malcolm Kendrick
A Long and Winding Roadhttps://youtu.be/7wBP0GoL9TkIn February of 2023 Dr. Kendrick spoke at BSI’s event in Phoenix, AZ. Malcom’s presentation recaps the history of the diet-heart hypothesis, the supposed link between cholesterol and cardiovascular death, and how drug companies have fooled docto...
Russell Berger
By Russell BergerOver the last few years, a series of high-profile retractions, resignations, and lawsuits have shaken academic science. In 2018, Brian Wansink, the head of Cornell University’s Food and Brand lab, resigned after the American Medical Association retracted six of his studies. Wans...
Broken Science
January 12, 2024 article from The Harvard Crimson.Two weeks ago Harvard’s college paper reported data manipulation in multiple papers stemming from its own affiliated medical school, The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Four senior researchers have been accused of forging data through “duplications...
Malcolm Kendrick
Misrepresenting the results of clinical trialsBy Malcolm KendrickIn the frantic information world we now live in, few of us can be bothered to pay close attention to…well, pretty much anything. Yes, we have our own areas of interest. We know a great deal about certain things and will happily spend...
Emily Kaplan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhC0-R5DL8On December 29, 2023, BSI’s Emily Kaplan sat as a guest on the Ask Dr. Drew podcast. Dr. Drew, who runs a private practice in Pasadena, is well known in the media sphere for his decades of work as a personality on radio and television.Among other topics E...
Russell Berger
By Russell Berger On 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 ...