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Given the media attention devoted to weak observational claims about health (miracle vegetables, chemophobia of the month) and the rampant mistrust of science that has resulted, it is worth asking if they're worth the expense at all

A new paper in JAMA Cardiology titled Long-term S

Scientists are humans, too. And, just like other humans you know, some of them aren't very good at their jobs. There are three main ways in which scientists can mess up.

One of the major reasons scientific research is facing a reproducibility problem is because of poor use of statistics.

You may be aware that suicides among working-aged men are on the rise.

It is one thing for a naturopath to push turmeric, the latest fad in fancy snake oils, as a cure all for everything from your bad sex life to diabetes.

Every discussion about postmodernism quickly devolves into accusations that the writer doesn't know what postermodernism is1. Of course, that's true, because nobody knows what postmodernism is.

We get email. Liar. Jerk. Sock puppet. Propagandist. Criminal. Corporate slut. Satan's minion1. These are just a few of the names Dr. Josh Bloom and I have been called -- and that was just last week.  

The war on expertise is not a new phenomenon.

Last October, following the UN General Assembly, we wrote of the urgency needed for the global health crisis occurring in Haiti