tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post602761442860492152..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #15288Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-5344192512204935602015-10-16T10:16:13.092-05:002015-10-16T10:16:13.092-05:00Exactly; and the quoted comment from the article m...Exactly; and the quoted comment from the article makes the mistake of assuming "medical clinical research" is science, when it often isn't science <i>based</i>, just as "intellegent design" isn't. Both are just profit driven drivel designed to beguile those who's varied bias leads them to want to believe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-41207437022474805792015-10-16T10:03:38.390-05:002015-10-16T10:03:38.390-05:00The research researched was "medical clinical...The research researched was "medical clinical research" not all science. Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-57222244858876236002015-10-16T09:54:13.867-05:002015-10-16T09:54:13.867-05:00"The case against science is straightforward:..."The case against science is straightforward:" <br /><br />Actually what was expressed wasn't a case <i>against</i> science, but a case <i>of</i> pseudo-science using money to push (good) science away from the table, off the platform and out the door. The principles of science are still sound, it's the principles of the people who claim the mantle of "scientist" that one has to watch with care, particularly when loads of money are being thrown around.<br /><br />One of the reasons I have reasonable trust in the scientist who have worked out much of the science of climate change is that the data is accessible and repeatable, the tests are falsifiable(and therefore testable), unlike some of the claims in medicine, and finally the other side pays so much better that getting this many people to fly in the face of all that money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-65687627307271009102015-10-15T17:38:39.638-05:002015-10-15T17:38:39.638-05:00RE "Factors": Walmart has already closed...RE "Factors": Walmart has already closed 5 stores this year. . . because of "labor activism". HA! Heavens, what could be worse! I'm sure the filthy stores, empty shelves, and surly workers had nothing to do with revenue problems . . . although when even my elderly parents no long shop at Walmart for those reasons ya' have to wonder . . . but I'm SURE they're an anomaly. kwarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-4369484124894891332015-10-15T15:26:54.658-05:002015-10-15T15:26:54.658-05:00Sanders isn't FDR. He's Kucinich with a b...Sanders isn't FDR. He's Kucinich with a better line of patter.<br /><br />------------------<br /><br />Why is the DNC Sending Out Pro-Bernie Sanders Emails?<br /><br />The fact that the DNC wants the appearance of a robust debate, while doubling down on the Hillary coronation, seems obvious but where do Sanders’ motivations fit into all of this? After all, he decided to run as a Democrat and has promised he won’t challenge the Democratic establishment from outside its walls. Here’s the Sanders in an ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos from May 3:<br /><br /><br />STEPHANOPOULOS: So if you lose in this nomination fight, will you support the Democratic nominee?<br /><br />SANDERS: Yes. I have in the past.<br /><br />STEPHANOPOULOS: Not going to run as an independent?<br /><br />SANDERS: No, absolutely not. I’ve been very clear about that.<br /><br />Ironically, it seems that the DNC and left-critics of the Sanders campaign agree on a very important fact: they believe Sanders will attract a number of young voters and activists, then dutifully tell them to vote for Hillary when he drops out. The DNC sees that outcome as a win and leftists see it as a loss, but both perceive his dropout as inevitable. <br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/10/why-is-the-dnc-sending-out-pro-bernie-sanders-emails/<br /><br />Hope for Change, suckers!AlanSmihteenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-220821089007590922015-10-15T14:41:44.075-05:002015-10-15T14:41:44.075-05:00Alas, this not not just research suggesting... (la...Alas, this not not just research suggesting... (last piece excluded)<br /><br />The editors-in-chief of two leading medical journals express unambiguous alarm, by writing public essays that state in stark terms that the medical research and publication system is deeply broken, is producing mostly flawed results, and is probably widely corrupt.<br /><br />In other realities, in other times, that would be headline news and Congressional-inquiry worthy.McMikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-85887719995300452492015-10-15T13:19:45.188-05:002015-10-15T13:19:45.188-05:00McMike - love it when research comes over the tran...McMike - love it when research comes over the transom already researched. Even if it's research that suggests research is useless... Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-82988574372360147002015-10-15T10:50:27.087-05:002015-10-15T10:50:27.087-05:00Some quotations, possibly of interest:
Lancet Edi...Some quotations, possibly of interest:<br /><br />Lancet Editor-in-Chief: “A lot of what is published is incorrect.”<br /><br />“A lot of what is published is incorrect.” I’m not allowed to say who made this remark…. Because this symposium—on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research, held at the Wellcome Trust in London last week—touched on one of the most sensitive issues in science today: the idea that something has gone fundamentally wrong with one of our greatest human creations.<br /><br />The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”.<br /><br />-- Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. Offline: What is medicine's 5 sigma? http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1.pdf <br /><br /><br />NEJM Editor-in-Chief: "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published"<br /><br />Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.<br /><br />-- Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption, by Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief for The New England Journal of Medicine, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/<br /><br /><br />A professor in disease prevention and epidemiology at Stanford University School of Medicine: "There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false"<br /><br />There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false… Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true.<br /><br />-- John P.A. Ioannidis, Professor, Standord School of Medicine, Why Most Published Research Findings Are False http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124<br /><br />McMikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-79129815192867191342015-10-15T08:38:20.520-05:002015-10-15T08:38:20.520-05:00re wrong explanations: it's the marketplace of...re wrong explanations: it's the marketplace of bad ideas.<br /><br />re the Navy: they should also teach semaphores while they are at it.<br /><br />re WalMart: does that mean we get our Main Streets back?McMikenoreply@blogger.com