I’ve been looking around for something that explains TTIP without talking about what a really bad idea it is, and I can’t find anything. This link arrived in the comments and is typical of what I found on my own, only it’s clearer. I guess it’s telling that I can’t find a pro-TTP article. Here’s […]
I’m not sure what all this means, but I’m pretty sure it’s not good news, a decided blow to Data Transparency. I’ve e-mailed everyone I know who might be able to clarify… European Parliament’s vote turns health into a trade secret Trade Secrets Directive opens the way for shady TTIP negotiations epha 14 April 2016 […]
Test-Retest Reliability of a Computerized Adaptive Depression Screener by David Beiser, Milkie Vu, and Robert Gibbons Psychiatric Services. Published online: April 15, 2016 Objective: Computerized adaptive testing [CAT] provides improved precision and decreased test burden compared with traditional, fixed-length tests. Concerns have been raised regarding reliability of CAT-based measurements because the items administered vary both […]
The ever-sensible British Neuroscientist we know as Neuroskeptic has a particularly sensible blog post up [How To Avoid Neurohype], tied to his equally sensible Daily Dot commentary [Why we’re living in an era of neuroscience hype]. In my view, it’s this sense of “hard” vs. “soft” truth that lies at the root of the craze […]
In a psychotherapy career, you learn some odd things – things you didn’t even know were there to learn. One important one is that we all do wrong and hurtful things that cause trouble in both our own lives and the lives of people around us. And if you look hard enough in the mirror, […]
I hope I got across in the making of « wolf alert! wolf alert!… » part 1 that I think ClinicalTrials.gov is a good idea, and that putting it in the center of a system aiming towards appropriate Data Transparency is a good idea too, but that it needs some heavy tweaking before it will […]
Usually when I write a blog post, I know what I want to say. I don’t like it when others wander around, so I try not to do it myself. But that’s not what happened with wolf alert! wolf alert!…. A coauthor on the Paxil Study 329 article had forwarded the PLOS article. It was […]
The wheels of progress turn very slowly, and about all one can really take heart from is that they keep turning. It seems as if what we call Data Transparency has been echoing around the Globe for several years but the yield so far has been sparse. In the version being worked out by the […]
Note: Don’t be fooled by the low counts. Comes now the grass pollen, the true dementer.
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