Main Menu
First up, I tackled the controversy around evidence on exercise and ME/CFS:
Consumer-Contested Evidence: Why the ME/CFS Exercise Dispute Matters So Much
And it was Black History Month. This year, I traced the stories of African-American STEM societies in 4 posts, chronologically from their founding:
Part 1: The First Wave (1895 to 1947)
Part 2: From Psychologists to Mathematicians
Part 3: From Sociologists to Engineers
Part 4: From Anthropologists to Academic Surgeons
You can see all my Absolutely Maybe posts for Black History Month here.
News for 2019: I'm pleased to announce that I'm now a regular contributor to BMJ Blogs. I'll be generally doing (shorter) versions of suitable posts from PLOS Blogs. First up:
Evidence and choice - what does one mean without the other?
And over at Absolutely Maybe, my annual open access roundup:
Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing a Line in the Sand
I updated my Twitter profile pic for the first time with one of my favorites.... Hmm... Too statistical?
Bad visual impairment and surgery that fixed it got me thinking a lot about evidence and choice, and how little one can mean without the other:
Post-Surgery Thoughts on Evidence and Choice
And I took exception to an opinion piece by a doctor about evidence and patient advocates:
"True Patients Must Be Students of Evidence-Based Medicine": An Impatient Rebuttal
My final post for the year is a return to an issue that once dominated my life, but I've kept away from for a very long time - home birth:
The Dangerous Allure of Breech Birth at Home - and a Problematic New Paper
The HPV vaccine and Cochrane sagas are rolling on - and I wrote about the responsibilities of the journal that published the error-ridden critique of the Cochrane review on the HPV vaccine:
Free Speech and Journals' Responsibilities in Vaccine Debates
Unusually, the journal - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine - proposed some corrections and invited feedback. My response:
Correcting the Record On That Critique of the Cochrane HPV Vaccine Review
At the end of the month, I had the privilege of giving the opening keynote at the terrific National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) conference. Here are my slides, and here's my post on the conference:
"High Value, Low Wastage Research" Is More Than Just a Catchphrase Now
Last month was all about the controversy over the Cochrane HPV vaccine review. This review, it turned out to have an unexpected back story - causing turmoil at the Cochrane Collaboration.Two more posts at Absolutely Maybe:
Boilover: The Cochrane HPV Vaccine Fire isn't Really About Evidence - but it's Critical to Science
Scientific Advocacy and Biases of the Ideological and Industry Kinds
And I kept tracking developments here at this website.
