Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
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Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#2> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025
What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care system. What a tragedy and a blow to evidence based medicine.
Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#3> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025 What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care…
>evidence based medicine
They do mention that Cochrane is only accounting for 7% of systematic reviews these days.
BTW, evidence-based medicine is not the same as science-based medicine. The Placebo Effect is evidence-based medicine.
Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#4> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025 What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care…
>evidence based medicine They do mention that Cochrane is only accounting for 7% of systematic reviews these days. BTW, evidence-based medicine is not the same as science-based medicine. The Placebo Effect is evidence-based medicine.
Only 7%?!
Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#5> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025 What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care…
>evidence based medicine They do mention that Cochrane is only accounting for 7% of systematic reviews these days. BTW, evidence-based medicine is not the same as science-based medicine. The Placebo Effect is evidence-based medicine.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you implying that the placebo effect is magic, or in some other way non-scientific?
Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
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Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#7> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025 What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care…
Given in the UK doctors have taken a real terms paycut circa of over 25% [0] the UK is not currently fit to fund anything.
[0] https://www.bma.org.uk/media/6882/bma-ia-juniors-fact-sheet-...
Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#8> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025 What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care…
>evidence based medicine They do mention that Cochrane is only accounting for 7% of systematic reviews these days. BTW, evidence-based medicine is not the same as science-based medicine. The Placebo Effect is evidence-based medicine.
As a comparison, New York Presbyterian hospital in NYC probably spent at least twice that deficit to put their logo on New York Mets jerseys.
I’m not what 7% of reviews represents, but it seems like particularly dumb austerity measure.
Re: Medical-evidence giant Cochrane battles funding cuts and closures
#9> Cochrane says that the lost NIHR funding — around £4.2 million (US$5.3 million) — does not affect its core income, which was £8.9 million in 2022. However, a more existential threat looms. Around £6.8 million of that core income came from subscriptions to the Cochrane Library, but Cochrane aims to make all its reviews open access by 2025 What the actual fuck, those are peanuts for any single country or health care…
Any of the top tier Ivies or US research schools could single handedly cover the cost.
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>misleading review on mask effectiveness (with Tom Jefferson)?
Can you provide more context for this? What was the study? Why was it misleading?