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Under-reporting or over-reporting?
I am going to start part two by looking at the evidence for statins causing ‘non-imagined’ adverse effects. Or, to put it another way, real effects. My own view on this is that the adverse effects of statins are significantly under-reported. Mainly because patients often don’t associate the drug with the problem. ...
‘A lie is halfway round the world, before the truth has a chance to get its boots on.’ A quote used most famously by Winston Churchill.
A few of you may have noticed a recent paper in the Lancet written by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Triallists Collaboration (CTT). Much to no-one’s great surprise it fully supported their long-held contention that stati...
My son tends to dismiss the idea of watching any film from before about say, the year 1990. Terrible special effects, he informs me, and just too old. As for anything in black and white … no, just, no. Why watch old stuff, it’s rubbish. The fool.
In science there also seems to be a tendency to think that things are constantly moving forward, building on what has gon...
I read an article in Nature magazine a couple of years ago which has nagged at me ever since. It highlighted the sobering fact there has been a collapse in disruptive science.
‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why
04 January 2023
The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has pl...
[Warning, this blog is long]
I have been silent for some time… I know, I know. I started looking at Covid-19 and ended up in some very strange places indeed. ‘Here be dragons.’ I ended up wandering about, making absolutely no progress. Eventually, I ground to a halt.
My insurmountable barrier was highlighted in an article entitled ‘Was the Sur...