Children Can Be Disgusting, And Often They

Positive Findings Are Around Twice As Likely To Be Published As Negative Findings. This Is A Cancer At The Core Of Evidence-based Medicine.

Data Is The Fabric Of The Modern World: Just Like We Walk Down Pavements, So We Trace Routes Through Data, And Build Knowledge And Products Out Of It.

Yes. I'm A Doctor, An Epidemiologist, And Lots Of My Professional Colleagues Flip Back And Forth Between Industry And Medical Roles. I Know Them; They Are Not Bad People. But It Is Possible For Good People In Bad Systems To Do Things That Inflict Enormous Harm.

Most Bloggers Have No Institutional Credibility, And So They Must Build It, By Linking Transparently, And Allowing You To Easily Double Check Their Work. But More Than Anything, Because Linking Sources Is Such An Easy Thing To Do, And The Motivations For Avoiding Links Are So Dubious, I've Detected Myself Using A New Rule Of Thumb: If You Don't Link To Primary Sources, I Just Don't Trust You.

Transparency And Detail Are Everything In Science.