Category: Health and Medicine
Category: Health and Medicine
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 do not prove cause.
By Emily KaplanIn this next video, BSI's Emily Kaplan explains all-cause mortality, and how it should be included when considering any medical treatment.
By Emily KaplanIn this video, Emily explains how to understand medical tests. She dives into both sensitivity and specificity of testing.
By Emily KaplanThe Wall Street Journal is catching on to the problems with peer review. Retractions continue to rise, with several high-profile pieces having been pulled in the last year.
Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast ep 1002. Greg Glassman, Mark Bell, Nsima Inyand, and Andrew Zaragoza talk about how and why Greg created CrossFit and why Greg believes science is broken.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick dives into history of medical breakthroughs showing us how new ideas are often shunned in order to maintain the status quo.
BSI’s Emily Kaplan explains the difference between absolute risk and relative risk, using a fictitious example to illustrate how results can be made to sound profound, when they really aren’t.
By Emily KaplanA neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease