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Maryanne Demasi, PhD
By Maryanne Demasi, PhDThe case shines a light on how journalists cover scientific issues and how the media seeks to discredit those who challenge the official narrative.In the UK, two medical experts have earned a major win in the High Court in a case described by the Judge as “the most signifi...
Broken Science
December 13, 2022 article from Experimental History.Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing.Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History explains the history and downfall of the peer review process."Peer review was a huge, expensive intervention. By one est...
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...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickA recent paper looked at a new method of calculating the future risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) - heart disease to you and me. It was called PREVENT (Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events). The main finding was that using it “could greatly reduc...
Broken Science
June 25, 2024 blog post from Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Zoë Harcombe PhD received a judgement in their favor yesterday in a London court. Kendrick and Harbombe had filed a libel suit against Associated Newspapers and a journalist who published defamatory articles about them due t...
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
May 29, 2024 article from The Oxford Student.As students, scientists, and other professionals face pressures to publish content, paper mills exploit this demand to the detriment of academic integrity and scholarly publishing.“The use of paper mills not only diminishes the reputability and credibil...
Malcolm Kendrick
(Placebos Part D) By Malcolm KendrickAnyone interested in science will know that we are in the midst of a ‘replication crisis.’ In 2016 Nature published an article which began“More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than hal...
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...
Maryanne Demasi, PhD
By Maryanne Demasi, PhDThe case shines a light on how journalists cover scientific issues and how the media seeks to discredit those who challenge the official narrative.In the UK, two medical experts have earned a major win in the High Court in a case described by the Judge as “the most signifi...
Broken Science
December 13, 2022 article from Experimental History.Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing.Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History explains the history and downfall of the peer review process."Peer review was a huge, expensive intervention. By one est...
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
July 15, 2024 article from The New York Times.Families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future. But the cells are rarely useful, and sometimes contaminated."When Stacy Seaver was a sales representative for CBR, from 2018 to 2019, her bigges...
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...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickA recent paper looked at a new method of calculating the future risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) - heart disease to you and me. It was called PREVENT (Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events). The main finding was that using it “could greatly reduc...
Broken Science
June 25, 2024 blog post from Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Zoë Harcombe PhD received a judgement in their favor yesterday in a London court. Kendrick and Harbombe had filed a libel suit against Associated Newspapers and a journalist who published defamatory articles about them due t...
Broken Science
June 26, 2024 article from AP News.The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security."The states had argue...
Broken Science
June 24, 2024 article from El País.The founders of Retraction Watch, an organization specialized in research misconduct, call for eliminating the incentives to manipulate metrics."The case has now attracted the attention of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee, which 'has urged the University of S...
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...
Maryanne Demasi, PhD
By Maryanne Demasi, PhDThe case shines a light on how journalists cover scientific issues and how the media seeks to discredit those who challenge the official narrative.In the UK, two medical experts have earned a major win in the High Court in a case described by the Judge as “the most signifi...
Broken Science
December 13, 2022 article from Experimental History.Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing.Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History explains the history and downfall of the peer review process."Peer review was a huge, expensive intervention. By one est...
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
July 15, 2024 article from The New York Times.Families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future. But the cells are rarely useful, and sometimes contaminated."When Stacy Seaver was a sales representative for CBR, from 2018 to 2019, her bigges...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickA recent paper looked at a new method of calculating the future risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) - heart disease to you and me. It was called PREVENT (Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events). The main finding was that using it “could greatly reduc...
Broken Science
June 25, 2024 blog post from Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Zoë Harcombe PhD received a judgement in their favor yesterday in a London court. Kendrick and Harbombe had filed a libel suit against Associated Newspapers and a journalist who published defamatory articles about them due t...
Malcolm Kendrick
(Placebos Part D) By Malcolm KendrickAnyone interested in science will know that we are in the midst of a ‘replication crisis.’ In 2016 Nature published an article which began“More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than hal...
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...
Bob Kaplan
By Bob KaplanHere’s a recent example of some of the important work BSI is helping to fund and make happen: “Could Cytoplasmic Lipid Droplets be Linked to Inefficient Oxidative Phosphorylation in Cancer?” by Thomas N. Seyfried, Nathan L. Ta, Tomas Duraj, Derek C. Lee, Michael A. Kiebish, ...
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 14, 2024 article from The Wall Street Journal.As light continues to be shed on the problems within the world of academic science, publishing company Wiley has announced it will shut down 19 of its journals. In the face of research fraud, Wiley has retracted over 11,300 papers in the past two yea...
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...
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/dBV3tYTUr5QEmily 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 do...
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 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,” ...
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
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 KendrickMedicine 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 t...
Greg Glassman
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 ...
Maryanne Demasi, PhD
By Maryanne Demasi, PhDThe case shines a light on how journalists cover scientific issues and how the media seeks to discredit those who challenge the official narrative.In the UK, two medical experts have earned a major win in the High Court in a case described by the Judge as “the most signifi...
Broken Science
December 13, 2022 article from Experimental History.Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing.Adam Mastroianni of Experimental History explains the history and downfall of the peer review process."Peer review was a huge, expensive intervention. By one est...
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
July 15, 2024 article from The New York Times.Families pay thousands of dollars to store their children’s stem cells with the hope of a healthier future. But the cells are rarely useful, and sometimes contaminated."When Stacy Seaver was a sales representative for CBR, from 2018 to 2019, her bigges...
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...
Malcolm Kendrick
By Malcolm KendrickA recent paper looked at a new method of calculating the future risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) - heart disease to you and me. It was called PREVENT (Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events). The main finding was that using it “could greatly reduc...
Broken Science
June 25, 2024 blog post from Dr. Malcolm Kendrick.Dr. Malcolm Kendrick and Zoë Harcombe PhD received a judgement in their favor yesterday in a London court. Kendrick and Harbombe had filed a libel suit against Associated Newspapers and a journalist who published defamatory articles about them due t...
Broken Science
June 26, 2024 article from AP News.The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security."The states had argue...
Broken Science
June 24, 2024 article from El País.The founders of Retraction Watch, an organization specialized in research misconduct, call for eliminating the incentives to manipulate metrics."The case has now attracted the attention of the Spanish Research Ethics Committee, which 'has urged the University of S...
Malcolm Kendrick
(Placebos Part D) By Malcolm KendrickAnyone interested in science will know that we are in the midst of a ‘replication crisis.’ In 2016 Nature published an article which began“More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than hal...
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...
Bob Kaplan
By Bob KaplanHere’s a recent example of some of the important work BSI is helping to fund and make happen: “Could Cytoplasmic Lipid Droplets be Linked to Inefficient Oxidative Phosphorylation in Cancer?” by Thomas N. Seyfried, Nathan L. Ta, Tomas Duraj, Derek C. Lee, Michael A. Kiebish, ...
