Promised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents
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.
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.
The final part of Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp. The day was a loosely structured open discussion, covering probability, quantum theory, cosmology, journal publication and more.
Headlines following observational study following red meat consumption confuses correlation with causation.
Over the years there have been many risk calculators for cardiovascular disease. Which of them works best? The answer is… none of them.
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 to their position on the effectiveness of statins.
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 founders of Retraction Watch, an organization specialized in research misconduct, call for eliminating the incentives to manipulate metrics.
Sunday at BSI’s 2024 Epistemology Camp was a loosely structured open discussion, covering probability, quantum theory, cosmology, and more.
Anton Garret argues that Bayesian methods, which incorporate prior information and logical consistency, offer a more robust framework for dealing with uncertainty compared to frequentist methods.
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.