tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post6215041935628034581..comments2023-09-21T04:02:29.457-04:00Comments on Skeptical Scalpel: The dark side of academic research Skeptical Scalpelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-37833601664130643232018-06-15T14:54:56.783-04:002018-06-15T14:54:56.783-04:00
Seems there is a problem with this study.
Major...<br />Seems there is a problem with this study. <br /><br />Major Study of Drinking Should be Stopped, N.I.H. Says. The National Institutes of Health gave scientists $100 million to fund a global study comparing people who drink alcohol with those who don’t. Its conclusions could have enshrined alcohol as part of a healthy diet. Much of the money for the study came from the alcohol industry<br /><br />https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/major-study-of-drinking-should-be-stopped-nih-says/ar-AAyHowG?ocid=spartandhpfrankbillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592389641852861124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-15575659575098862132018-06-14T13:05:51.157-04:002018-06-14T13:05:51.157-04:00Anon and Rugger, sorry for the delay in posting yo...Anon and Rugger, sorry for the delay in posting your comments. I did not realize Blogger is no longer sending me emails notifying me of comments awaiting approval. <br /><br />I had not seen the Bloomberg article. It is a good read. I might even blog about it. Thanks.<br /><br />Rugger, I haven't experienced that myself, but I can see that it might happen. There is no substitute for getting your hands wet.Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-23268878562337464882018-06-05T23:10:30.112-04:002018-06-05T23:10:30.112-04:00I was running down that academic track for a long ...I was running down that academic track for a long while. I soon started to correlate that for the younger surgeons, the longer their CV were becoming, the worse surgeons they were technically (and I emphasize younger, as older academic surgeons I don't find this) Ruggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06098113624490857426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-32064038762238201902018-06-05T09:09:51.166-04:002018-06-05T09:09:51.166-04:00Even scarier is pharma paying to publish. Check o...Even scarier is pharma paying to publish. Check out this piece by Bloomberg on OMICS (a predatory publisher)<br /><br />https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-29/medical-journals-have-a-fake-news-problemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-11014506779857110312018-06-04T07:28:24.408-04:002018-06-04T07:28:24.408-04:00I suspect very few people check a surgeon's CV...I suspect very few people check a surgeon's CV to see what journals papers appear in.Skeptical Scalpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206922456661320751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968787219619380438.post-77309568790865090202018-06-03T19:24:06.217-04:002018-06-03T19:24:06.217-04:00"Never mind the quality, feel the length of t..."Never mind the quality, feel the length of the publications on my CV."Korhommehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02290764661952746389noreply@blogger.com