Category Archives: proof

Conflict of interest?

Posted on April 3, 2018 by epihealth

Yesterday 3 colleagues and I submitted a refutation of an article concerned with opioids to a major journal. When it came to the section on stating whether I had a conflict of interest, I realized that I did not have … Continue reading →

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Evidence based medicine and “in my experience.”

Posted on March 7, 2017 by epihealth

As an epidemiologist with interests in many clinical questions, I have naturally gotten drawn into the realm of evidence-based medicine. If you ask almost any clinician, he or she will state that they practice evidence-based medicine. But I wonder if … Continue reading →

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Reproducibility: Or Not?

Posted on September 5, 2015 by epihealth

A study that demonstrated a disappointing lack of reproducibility in studies in psychology has recently received much publicity in scientific journals as well as popular media, including the New York Times. Without going into the details of the study, only … Continue reading →

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