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Neuropsych trials involving kids are designed differently when funded by the...
Over the short break that divided 2013 and 2014, we had a new study published looking at the designs of neuropsychiatric clinical trials that involve children. Because we study trial registrations and...
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Guerilla open access, public engagement with research, and ivory towers
Despite the growth of open access publishing, there is still a massive and growing archive of peer-reviewed research that is hidden behind paywalls. While academics can reach most of the research they...
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Should we ignore industry-funded research in clinical medicine?
A quick update to explain our most recent editorial [pdf] on evidence-based medicine published in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. It’s free for anyone to access. What do we know?...
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Media collection about conflicts of interest in systematic reviews of...
As usual, I’m keeping a record of major stories in the media related to a recently published paper. I will continue to update this post to reflect the media response to our article in the Annals of...
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How to predict the conclusion of a review without even reading it…
Short version: We published a new article in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology all about selective citation in reviews of neuraminidase inhbitors – like Tamiflu and Relenza. Lots of reviews get...
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Twitter users with anti-vaccine opinions are relatively easy to spot if we...
So…I have been systematically collecting tweets about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines since October 2013. We now have over two hundred thousand tweets that included keywords related to HPV...
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So you’ve found a competing interest disclosure. Now what?
Published research varies across a spectrum that at one end is simply marketing masquerading as genuine inquiry. Actors in lab coats. To counter this problem, every time research is published in a...
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Five tips for controlling the evidence base of your clinical intervention
You might remember me from such articles as “Even Systematic Reviews are Pretty Easy to Manipulate” and “I Can Predict the Conclusion of Your Review Even Without Reading It“. If you have been around...
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Why the inequalities in our information diets matter
Part I: Visiting the United States in November 2016 As I write this, I am on a train travelling from Boston to New York City, at a time when people in the United States are still coming to terms with...
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Why the inequalities in our information diets matter
Part II: A new NHMRC Project for measuring the impact of social and news media on health behaviours As promised following Part I – and now that I am back from the burnt orange colours of the United...
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Differences in exposure to negative news media are associated with lower...
Over the weekend, our new article in Vaccine was published. It describes how we found links between human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine coverage in the United States and information exposure measures...
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Thinking outside the cylinder: on the use of clinical trial registries in...
Clinical trials take a long time to be published, if they are at all. And when they are published, most of them are either missing critical information or have changed the way they describe the...
View ArticleHow articles from financially conflicted authors are amplified, why it...
tl;dr: we have a new article on conflicts of interest, published today in JAMA. Imagine you are attempting to answer a question about your health or the health of someone in your care. The answer isn’t...
View Articletrial2rev: seeing the forest for the trees in the systematic review ecosystem
tl;dr: we have a new web-based system called trial2rev that links published systematic reviews to included and relevant trials based on their registrations in ClinicalTrials.gov. Our report on this...
View ArticleDo Twitter bots spread vaccine misinformation?
Discussion of online misinformation in politics and public health often focuses on the role of bots, organised disinformation campaigns and “fake news”. A closer look at what typical users see and...
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Adam Dunn, University of Sydney The government is rolling out a new public information campaign this week to reassure the public about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, which one expert has said...
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