Earlier this week researchers from Norway, led by Dr Michael Bretthauer (seen right), published a paper in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled “Estimated […]
Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’
Student Topples Stanford’s President
On 9 December 2022 we reported that the president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prize-winning neuroscientist, and former biotech leader (seen […]
Peer Review of Grants by AI?
It was 30 years ago, when I was a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville […]
A Flurry of Screening Advice
Advocates on all sides of the breast screening debate are agreed that the earlier a malignant tumour is detected, the […]
What Happened in AI this Week?
This past week has been particularly busy for the field of artificial intelligence (AI). An open letter from Future of Life Institute […]
NIH’s TikTok Moment
What is it about the USA and China? Yesterday, the CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, was grilled for over five hours by […]
Stanford’s Leader Under Scrutiny
An important tenet of the scientific enterprise is that research published in the peer-reviewed literature is based on integrity and […]
Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate
On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]
Nobel Prize Controversies
Over the years, there have been three medical imaging technologies whose developers have been awarded a Nobel Prize: X-rays (1901); […]
Efficacy of Breast Self-Exams
It is widely accepted that when breast cancer is diagnosed early and remains localised, effective treatment yields a five-year survival […]