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RCTs: the great deception

  • Post author:Sophie Duncan
  • Post category:Bias in Science
  • Post published:30 November 2024
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

Gold-standard or fools-gold?Sigh no more, friends, sigh no more, RCTs were deceivers ever,One foot in SEs and one unsure, to science constant never*The deceptive dogma of RCTs as the gold…

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Medical science publishing: A slow-motion train wreck

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Bias in Science
  • Post published:22 November 2018
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

I respectfully dedicate this commentary to the memory of Barney Carroll. Those close to him, and those who knew him ‘vicariously’ via the internet, have good reason to look on…

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Guidelines: problems aplenty

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Bias in Science
  • Post published:30 August 2017
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

AbstractThis critique is about the problems and adverse treatment consequences associated with medical treatment guidelines.  It explicates the many ways in which they can be, and are, misused, misleading, invalid,…

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Lancet ‘21 antidepressants’ meta-analysis

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Bias in Science/Other
  • Post published:26 February 2018
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

AbstractThis is a critical appraisal of the Cipriani et al. study in the Lancet, of ‘21 anti-depressants’.  The likelihood is that this study will be applied inappropriately in clinical practice,…

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