"Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth." Pope Leo XIV
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This is a superb study on the topic
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Again: as soon as a drug is investigated by a competing company, effects are smaller.
And nothing happens.
We've shown this for fluoxetine, here it's shown vor wellbutrin.
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Ich würde sofort meinen Job aufgeben wenn jemand manualisiertes Vorgehen fordert.
Aber wie man bei Zwang ohne Konfrontation vorgeht bleibt mir als humanistisch geprägter Therapeut auch ein Rätsel.
Coming out is still a challenging time for sexual minority individuals, according to the Quebec birth cohort study. Not many such high-quality longitudinal studies out there.
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Important, thank you!
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
Depressing! We did a review on ketamine and suicidality. Several studies with results that appear too good to be true but without obvious errors (except for one where I could achieve retraction). Are we really at a stage where we need to assume studies are unreliable until proven otherwise?
Agree.
Maybe the authors didn't expect that someone would take a closer look.
Many variable names were in the Arabic language and it took a while until I made sense of the data.
I found an R package translating data automatically.
R is amazing!
Check my timeline and search for "standard error".
I regularly post about such studies.
Reminder: If researchers find Cohen's d = 6, no they didn't.
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Yes, I was surprised, too! And I don't know why the authors handed out data with obvious errors.
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6. There were several other problems, too. I am glad that this retraction process was fast, preventing that this trial will spoil results of meta-analysis on the topic.
5. However, as we both found, the data between the two sheets did not match. The data in the sheet for statistical tests deviated from the sheet with the raw data, and Ian could show it deviated systematically, leading to the very large effects.
4. @ianhussey.mmmdata.io was allowed to look at the data, too, and he did an excellent and thorough re-analysis, showing systematic "errors": the authors copied the results from one data-sheet with the raw data to another sheet used for running statistical tests.
3. Surprisingly, the authors indeed provided the data and some explanations (conflating SD with SE) and said they would do corrections.
However, I could have a look at the raw data and found more unexplained inconsistencies.
2. I submitted a letter about the implausibly large effects and discrepancies in the results reported in the paper and recommended to obtain the raw data.
The editor decided against publishing the letter and instead requested direct clarification from the authors and the data.
1. The paper with the implausibly large effects of Omega-3 fatty acids on mental health was now retracted. A little thread on the process where @ianhussey.mmmdata.io and I was involved.
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Martina Gedek ist eine wunderbare Schauspielerin und hier ihre Gedanken zur Frage: "Was hätte gern früher gewusst hätte". Sehr weise und inspirierend.
Aus der aktuellen "Zeit".
Ian is smart, and he has integrity. You want to work with him.
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The recording of our talk about how a single small "zombie"-trial skewed the results of influential network meta-analyses is available here:
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"The OECD reports detailed illicit payments totaling $12,633,989. Implicated companies had to pay $1,111,225,911 in sanctions related to bribery,...
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Entry of the London School of Hygiena
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