This past Monday, 4 February 2019, was the 20th occasion to mark World Cancer Day. Emanating from the Charter of Paris, the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’
Don’t Lose the 3
Six years ago, the CEO of French manufacturer Poly Implant Prosthese, Jean-Claude Mas, was convicted and sent to jail for using non-medical […]
What a Tangled Web We Weave
The poem Marmion was written by Sir Walter Scott and published in 1808. It is a story of lust, forgery, treason and […]
We Learn From Our Mistakes
Eight years ago, two health journalists – Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus – wrote their first blog about the retraction of journal […]
The End of Paywalled Journals?
Science Europe is an association of European Research Funding Organisations based in Brussels, and earlier this week it published a controversial initiative called […]
Pseudoscience and Debunking Myths
David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit. He specializes in […]
Welch Found Guilty of Plagiarism
Two years ago we featured a paper by Gilbert Welch (seen right, © The Dartmouth Institute) published by the New England Journal […]
An Electronic Idiot Savant?
The title of today’s blog is taken from a recent opinion piece in The Economist that considers whether artificial intelligence (AI) will […]
End the Confusion
There is no doubting the power of social media to influence the way people think about a particular topic. And, […]
A Computer Algorithm Failure
On Wednesday 2 May 2018 the Health Secretary for the UK government, Mr Jeremy Hunt (seen right, © The Independent), stood up […]