scientific method

There is a tale, often retold in modern healthcare discourse: the tension between not only two competing industries, but, more importantly, two different ideologies concerning the nature of the scientific method and its philosophical foundat

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Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science, de

Is the science behind vaccines valid? Some feel it is fatally flawed – vaccination places us all at greater risk than the diseases they were developed to prevent.

One of our standard medications used in caring for the critically ill is steroids, more specifically glucocorticoids.

By Kai Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." We know that's true because statisticians themselves just said so.

Neil Sedaka once noted that breaking up is hard to do. Even harder, it seems, is doing good science. Why?

John Ioannidis is like the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse. When he comes riding in, scientists tremble in fear.

From a young age, we teach science to students all wrong.