Jonah Lehrer has up another of his contrarian science articles: “Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us”.
Main topics: the failure of drugs in clinical trials, diminishing returns to pharmaceutical research, doctors over-treating, and Humean causality-correlation distinction, with some Ioannidis mixed through-out.
See also “Why epidemiology will not correct itself”
“Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us”
Jonah Lehrer has up another of his contrarian science articles: “Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us”.
Main topics: the failure of drugs in clinical trials, diminishing returns to pharmaceutical research, doctors over-treating, and Humean causality-correlation distinction, with some Ioannidis mixed through-out.
See also “Why epidemiology will not correct itself”
In completely unrelated news, Nick Bostrom is stepping down from IEET’s Chairman of the Board.