Two things that science is struggling with at the moment are reproducibility and translatability. The problem where results are reported by a lab and then other labs struggle to reproduce the same result is happening more and more. Begley et al. (2013) attempted to repeat simple experiments from 53 papers on treating cancer cells in culture. […]
I was reading about Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and it dawned on me that perhaps he was partly right about evolution. So, most people believe that Darwin was the first to propose the theory of evolution, but really, evolution just states that the diversity of life is due to inheritance with alteration over a long period of […]
An article was published in 2006 called Why most published research findings are false(1). I have skim read it a few times, but recently I put the time in to read it thoroughly. It basically goes through a simple statistical analysis to suggest that even if all of research was performed using the absolute best scientific practices […]
Here is an interesting study that suggests your average diet contains both anti-cancer and cancer causing compounds and the effect sizes cancel out. For example bacon increases your risk of cancer and onion decreases your risk. So eat bacon and onions and you’ll be perfectly healthy.http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2012/11/27/ajcn.112.047142.abstract I was thinking about this paper and here’s the twist. Because […]
Introduction Anyone who watches the news frequently might be aware of a very wide and deep fissure that exists in science today. They will be aware of this fissure because every week it appears that a disease is cured by a new compound. This compound might one week be found on the skin of a […]
One of my sayings is “Where there is a debate, there is research” – but there are problems in the research. To discuss this point I must first explain how science works. In universities, where much of all published research is done, research is broken up into small teams. Each team is led by […]
This could be a biggie. So there are lots of questions and lots of stances on this issue, legalize, medicinal, decriminalize. I’m going to comment on a bit and wait for comments from the public and then I’ll expand on those issues. A lot for good arguments are already out there, both for and against […]
It is commonly believed that scientists (and science as a whole) aren’t open minded, by this it is meant that they aren’t open to new ideas. I think this is the opposite of the truth. If you look at it, medicine 150 years ago was very different to medicine today. Have you heard of […]