Bridgegate: The Case of the Missing Ethical Research Review
When the mayor of Fort Lee asked why those—now infamous—toll lanes to the George Washington Bridge were closed, he was told, “a study.” Yet when his desperate pleas to Port Authority officials were...
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“90% of papers published in academic journals are never cited.” This damning statistic from a 2007 overview of citation analysis recently darted about cyberspace. A similar statistic had made the...
View ArticleMore Than Big Data Needed for Estimates as Good as Randomized Clinical...
A research methods post… Bill Gardner is cautiously—very cautiously—hopeful that big data from electronic health records (EHRs) will enable unbiased estimates of the effects of medical treatment,...
View ArticleWhat Randomized Experiments of Alcoholics Anonymous Can’t Tell Us
Might Alcoholics Anonymous Not Work for Those Who Won’t Participate in Randomized Experiments of AA? A Study of Breast Feeding Promotion Could Help Answer the Question Alcoholics Anonymous’...
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