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I was just reading Spirituality and religion in oncology (Peteet, J. R., & Balboni, M. J. (2013). CA: a cancer journal for clinicians.), which quantifies the positive effects of going beyond the physiology of cancer to the person enduring the disease, especially at the end of their life. Here’s a part that struck me:
Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe:
Publication bias affects every field of medicine. About half of all trials, on average, go missing in action, and we know that positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings.
George Monbiot’s “The Lairds of Learning” (via HN) is exceedingly important:
But the academic publishers get their articles, their peer reviewing (vetting by other researchers) and even much of their editing for free. The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends. But to see it, we must pay again, and through the nose.
Make cool shapes in water - Frighteningly simple, yet sophisticated enough fluid dynamics to make it into the news on Nature, publisher of the prestigious primary source.