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Doctor Goes After Retraction Watch, Unleashes Streisand Effect

I had never heard of Dr. Bharat Aggarwal before last week. Nor had I heard the term “meritless thuggery.” Now the two phrases are bouncing around in my head like a Tegan and Sara song.

Some suggestions for improving wider understanding of the work of population health

How can a wider audience be engaged in the broad-ranging and often complex issues of population health? Ben Harris-Roxas, a health impact assessment consultant, has some suggestions.

Requiem for a Column: The Healthy Skeptic

Looking back at a deceased column: The Healthy Skeptic.

Are Medical Conferences Useful? And For Whom?

"The renowned mythbuster of medicine" - as one blog calls John Ioannidis, MD, of Stanford - asks tough, important questions about the 100,000+ medical conferences held each year. Journalists and the public should learn from his warnings - since so much news is reported from these meetings.

How effective do flu shots need to be to be good for public health?

In the last Daily Briefing of the week, we explore how much medicine Americans take, surprising facts about pregnant women and the dangers of science.

How to "Rebuild" Wounded Soldiers

Today's Daily Briefing looks at the effects of America's wars here at home, a doctor fired after speaking up, a skeptical look at open access journals and data on U.S. health care costs that you can play with.

Full Disclosure: Universities Should Make Ghostwriting Disappear

Shannon Brownlee offers a not-so-modest proposal for universities to stamp out pharma ghostwriting benefiting researchers.

Are RCTs the most cost effective choice?

With only 17 to 18 percent of NIH grant applications funded this year - the lowest level on record - are RCTs costing millions, cost effective?

The Curse of the Big Idea: Be Wary of Paradigm Shifts on PowerPoint

Beware of the Big Idea science stories first marketed as breakthroughs through magazine covers and PowerPoint presentations — only to be proven with increasing regularity to be more fiction than fact.

Blow Out Your Candle, Retraction Watch, and Get Back to Work!

Thanks to the influential science blog Retraction Watch, when a paper gets pulled, the world hears about it. Here are my favorite Retraction Watch contributions to medical research and health reporting.

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