William Briggs rebuts at a recent publication that claimed intermittent fasting increases risk of cardiovascular death.

As everyone knows, a placebo is an inactive ‘sugar’ pill. Except when it isn’t. Which is almost always.

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 cancer risk.

Dr. 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 explains the basics of calculating probability, which pieces of the calculation are subjective, and how the results can influence beliefs and actions.

Economist Gary Smith digs into a published study on green innovations that failed to disclose missing pieces of its dataset.

Breaking down composite endpoints to their component parts.

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.