“These are mostly unpublished, preliminary results.
Abstracts that are released at a major medical conference are snippets of studies that usually have not been peer-reviewed nor published in medical journals. They should be approached with great caution. Without reading through the full details of a study, it’s impossible to know important limitations, such as a high drop-out rate among the treatment group. We also can’t see the list of adverse events. Many studies presented as meeting abstracts may never even get published in a journal.”
Short Online Texts Thread
6 things to keep in mind if you read cancer-related news in the next few days
https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/06/6-things-keep-mind-read-cancer-related-news-next-days/
“These are mostly unpublished, preliminary results. Abstracts that are released at a major medical conference are snippets of studies that usually have not been peer-reviewed nor published in medical journals. They should be approached with great caution. Without reading through the full details of a study, it’s impossible to know important limitations, such as a high drop-out rate among the treatment group. We also can’t see the list of adverse events. Many studies presented as meeting abstracts may never even get published in a journal.”
and tips for analyzing studies
https://www.healthnewsreview.org/toolkit/tips-for-understanding-studies/
How about one weird trick? Or is there something I would be surprised to learn?
What it this clickbait shit?
This is why infrastructure is so expensive...
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/4/this-is-why-infrastructure-is-so-expensive
edit: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-31/the-u-s-has-forgotten-how-to-do-infrastructure
and just in,
Bob Dylan—Nobel Lecture
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-lecture.html
How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide (bias acknowledge)
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-to-call-bullshit-on-big-data-a-practical-guide?intcid=mod-latest
google working on self improving AI
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607894/why-googles-ceo-is-excited-about-automating-artificial-intelligence/
ouch
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/psychoanalyzing-donald-trump