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Journals That Ban Replications--Are They Serious Scholarly Outlets At All?
It's time to adopt the Pottery Barn rule.
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Stuart Buck
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Choosing a Control Group
The Study of the Week considers one of the most curious choices of a control arm that I have seen
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John Mandrola
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If you are sick, do not test for COVID19; If your child is mildly sick, do not test & send them to school
Time to return to sensible policies
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Vinay Prasad
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The CDC director just got COVID. She got the new bivalent booster a month ago.
 • Vinay Prasad
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Before We Push the New Omicron Vaccine, Let’s See The Data
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Legitimizing irrational anxiety is bad medicine
 • Vinay Prasad
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Sacrificing children’s health in the name of Health
 • Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD
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John Ioannidis: The Pandemic as of 7/28/2022
 • Vinay Prasad
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The Sexual Politics of Waiting Rooms
A Friday Reflection Substitute, by Anne Cifu
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The Needle—Peace Corps Zambia, March 6th, 2023
Taking those tweezers may be the right move, but it’s antithetical to Peace Corps’ doctrine of teaching others to help themselves.
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Colton Lipfert
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Foy and Mandrola Discuss AF, AF-Ablation, Sham-controls, Evidence Translation and Heterogenous Treatment Effects
Listen now (40 mins) | We use the recent REMEDIAL and FRAIL AF trials as examples
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John Mandrola
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Andrew J Foy
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When Studies Can't Answer an Important Question (but are still published)
Study of the Week readers may be shocked to read this. I was.
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John Mandrola
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Health disparities research is full of low quality work
It often does a disservice to marginalized groups and often merely furthers the careers of mediocre academics
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Vinay Prasad
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Cornell's New Dean, Bob Harrington, Asked Jay Bhattacharya & Eran Bendavid to stop talking to the press about COVID policy, per B's account
The Death of Academic Freedom at Stanford
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Vinay Prasad
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The Story of JOWMA, the Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association
In an era where medicine is plagued by burnout and moral injury, I’m inspired to know and support the women of JOWMA. To us, medicine is a true calling.
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Miriam A Knoll, MD
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