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In my experience, there's a disproportionate reward associated with fashions in science. That is, the people at the forefront of a trend get rewarded professionally (tenure, positi…

Some of the research in this area is misleading, I'd even maybe say poorly conducted, and I worry it will be taken too much at face value by policy-makers and administrators. The c…

I read the J Clin Epi paper being discussed when it first came out and it expressed my feelings and thoughts very well, as a professor. The crux of the problem is this: we as a soc…

I came to suggest something similar. I often wonder how much this applies today. Academic science is currently heavily driven by funding of popular, low-risk research. Also, withou…