Advocates on all sides of the breast screening debate are agreed that the earlier a malignant tumour is detected, the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’
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 […]
Are Drugs Fairly Priced?
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
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?
The National Cancer Institute in the USA defines a randomized clinical trial as: “A study in which the participants are divided by […]