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Placebos for all, or why the p-value should have no place in healthcare decision making

David Colquhoun, professor of pharmacology at UCL, has a new essay over at Aeon opining about the problems with p-values. A short while back, we also discussed p-value problems, and Colquhoun arrives at the same conclusions as us about the… Read More »Placebos for all, or why the p-value should have no place in healthcare decision making

Conference round-up: Medicine, Markets and Morals Network Meeting Three

Last October saw the first meeting of the Medicine, Markets and Morals Network. Today and yesterday I attended their third and final (for now) meeting in London. The network brings together researchers from across the social sciences and humanities to discuss… Read More »Conference round-up: Medicine, Markets and Morals Network Meeting Three