Breaking down composite endpoints to their component parts.

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 [...]

How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

In 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 compares the hypothesis to the null-hypothesis, a yes/no approach, to determine if the data could support the null-hypothesis. It then ranks the data with a P-value, but it actually says nothing about the hypothesis being true.

Harvard medical school 'research-integrity officer' was co-author of studies in question.

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.

Explaining how a clinical trial can report success – when there is none.

In 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 doctors into prescribing medications that are harming patients rather than helping them.

Scientific misconduct is ever becoming more recognized as a problem, yet what exactly constitutes misconduct varies by source.