Evidence-based Medicine
Ann Robinson’s research reviews – 24 September 2018
27 Sep, 2018 | 22:43h | UTCAnn Robinson’s research reviews, 24 September 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere
27 Sep, 2018 | 22:42h | UTCCongratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) (via @kennylinafp)
“Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that can lead to bad science.”
Diagnostic Expansion in Clinical Trials: Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Cancer Recurrence, and Metastases May Not be the Hard Endpoints you Thought They Were
21 Sep, 2018 | 02:00h | UTCDiagnostic expansion in clinical trials: myocardial infarction, stroke, cancer recurrence, and metastases may not be the hard endpoints you thought they were – The BMJ (free for a limited period)
Meta-Analyses Were Supposed to end Scientific Debates. Often, They Only Cause More Controversy
21 Sep, 2018 | 01:52h | UTCMeta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy – Science (free) (via @Onisillos)
Zackary Berger’s Journal Reviews – 17 September 2018
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:37h | UTCZackary Berger’s journal reviews, 17 September 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
Opinion: Medicine’s Financial Contamination
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:37h | UTCMedicine’s Financial Contamination – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Let’s Stop the Burning and the Bleeding at Cochrane—There’s Too Much at Stake
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:27h | UTCRelated: Evidence-based medicine group in turmoil after expulsion of co-founder – Science (free) AND Trish Greenhalgh: The Cochrane Collaboration—what crisis? – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Cochrane – A sinking ship? – BMJ EBM Spotlight (free) AND Turmoil erupts over expulsion of member from leading evidence-based medicine group – STAT (free)
See also: Statement from Cochrane’s Governing Board (free)
Ig Nobel Win for Kidney Stone Removing Roller-coaster
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:21h | UTCIg Nobel win for kidney stone removing roller-coaster – BBC (free)
Related: Ig Nobel prizes honor do-it-yourself colonoscopies, a curious use for postage stamps, and other peculiar research – Science (free)
Patients vs. Paywalls: Is the U.S. Ready for Open-access Publishing?
20 Sep, 2018 | 19:19h | UTCPatients vs. paywalls: Is the U.S. ready for open-access publishing? – STAT (free)
Related: Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free – The Guardian (free) AND cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)
Thousands of Scientists Publish a Paper Every Five Days
14 Sep, 2018 | 02:25h | UTCThousands of scientists publish a paper every five days – Nature (free)
Related: Some scientists publish more than 70 papers a year. Here’s how—and why—they do it – Science (free)
Opinion – Scientific Publishing is a Rip-off. We Fund the Research – It Should be Free
14 Sep, 2018 | 02:26h | UTCScientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free – The Guardian (free)
Related: cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)
Opinion – Screening: How Overdiagnosis and Other Harms can Undermine the Benefits
14 Sep, 2018 | 01:59h | UTCScreening: How overdiagnosis and other harms can undermine the benefits – Health News Review (free)
“All screening programs do harm, some do good as well.”
Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: August 2018
14 Sep, 2018 | 01:58h | UTCLast Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: August 2018 – eCancer News (free)
Alex Nowbar’s Research Reviews, 10 September 2018
14 Sep, 2018 | 01:57h | UTCAlex Nowbar’s research reviews, 10 September 2018 – The BMJ (free)
Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals
14 Sep, 2018 | 01:32h | UTC
2018 Global State of Peer Review
14 Sep, 2018 | 01:30h | UTCPeer reviewers unmasked: largest global survey reveals trends – Nature News (free)
Original Report: 2018 Global State of Peer Review (free)
cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020
6 Sep, 2018 | 02:59h | UTCcOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 – Science Europe (free)
See also: 10 principles of Plan S (free PDF) AND Press Release (free PDF)
Commentaries: Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions – Nature News (free) AND ‘Plan S’ and ‘cOAlition S’ – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications – European Commission (free) AND Science without publication paywalls: cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access – PLOS Biology (free)
“…free access to all scientific publications from publicly funded research is a moral right of citizens.” (from European Comission)
Study: Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments
31 Aug, 2018 | 02:50h | UTCEvaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 – Nature Human Behavior (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: More social science studies just failed to replicate. Here’s why this is good – VOX (free) AND High-profile journals put to reproducibility test – Nature News (free) AND ‘Replication crisis’ spurs reforms in how science studies are done – ScienceNews (free) AND The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up—Again – WIRED (Free) AND In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test – NPR (free)
“We replicated 21 social science experiments in Science or Nature. We succeeded with 13. Replication effect sizes were half of originals.” (via @BrianNosek see Tweet)
Study: Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Oncologist Authors of Reports of Clinical Drug Trials
31 Aug, 2018 | 02:34h | UTCFinancial Conflicts of Interest Among Oncologist Authors of Reports of Clinical Drug Trials – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Financial disclosure lacking in publication of clinical trials – eCancer News (free) AND Oncologist-Authors Often Do Not Fully Disclose Financial Relationships with Pharmaceutical Companies – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND One-third of oncologist authors fail to disclosure industry payments – Healio News (free registration required)
Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association
31 Aug, 2018 | 02:01h | UTCGuide to Statistics and Methods: Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Zackary Berger’s journal reviews, 28 August 2018
31 Aug, 2018 | 02:02h | UTCZackary Berger’s journal reviews, 28 August 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Opinion: Publish Peer Reviews
31 Aug, 2018 | 01:47h | UTCPublish peer reviews – Nature News (free)
“Jessica K. Polka and colleagues call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.”
Viewpoint: The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research
23 Aug, 2018 | 23:48h | UTCThe Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research – JAMA (free for a limited period)
“…the emerging picture of nutritional epidemiology is difficult to reconcile with good scientific principles. The field needs radical reform.”
Perspective: This Drug Is Safe and Effective. Wait. Compared With What?
23 Aug, 2018 | 22:59h | UTCThis Drug Is Safe and Effective. Wait. Compared With What? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Perspective: How Unpaywall is Transforming Open Science
17 Aug, 2018 | 02:21h | UTCHow Unpaywall is transforming open science – Nature News (free)
Related: Unlocking paywalled research papers (legally) (free commentaries) AND Half of papers searched for online are free to read (free)
We have been using the Unpaywall Extension for a while, and it is indeed a handy tool to find free versions (entirely legal) of paywalled articles.