The reproducibility crisis in health and medical research
During the October's Gold Coast Skeptics in the Pub, Professor Adrian Barnett from School of Public Health and Social Work at QUT talks about how rewarding publication with "sexy" (read statistically significant) results over good science and the truth is costing the public both money and harm. It's clear from this talk that rewarding positive results and "new" and "innovative" findings only has lead to high levels of wastage in research. This is not to say that new and innov
Evaluating Health Claims – how to decide if they are legitimate.
In the bewildering times of “fake news”, wellness promoting celebrities and the unprecedented access to information on the internet, how do we make sense of the all the hype? When it comes to health, invaluable or misleading information that dilute the truth can result in frustration, confusion, and in the worst case, harm. To avoid being tricked by misleading health claims, members of the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University gave some practical