Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’

A Flurry of Screening Advice

Posted on: May 12th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

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?

Posted on: March 31st, 2023 by admin

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

Posted on: March 24th, 2023 by admin

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

Posted on: December 9th, 2022 by admin

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

Posted on: September 9th, 2022 by admin

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

Posted on: July 22nd, 2022 by admin

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

Posted on: February 25th, 2022 by admin 2 Comments

It is widely accepted that when breast cancer is diagnosed early and remains localised, effective treatment yields a five-year survival […]

Are Drugs Fairly Priced?

Posted on: February 11th, 2022 by admin 2 Comments

Trastuzumab – also known as Herceptin – is a life-saving drug that arrests the development and spread of an aggressive form of […]

Ghostwriting and Academic Fraud

Posted on: January 21st, 2022 by admin

If you visit this website (click here), you will read: “We sell our prepared manuscripts for publication in the journals […]

What if it’s not Randomized?

Posted on: November 26th, 2021 by admin

The National Cancer Institute in the USA defines a randomized clinical trial as: “A study in which the participants are divided by […]