[SaneVax: Peer-reviewed clinical research is the cornerstone of the healthcare system. Have medical consumers been betrayed by the system? What if 90% of published clinical research is exaggerated, or completely false? Where does that leave the average medical consumer?] ‘Evidence-Based’ Medicine: A Coin’s Flip Worth of Certainty By Sayer Ji A seismic shift is occurring in […]
How to fix peer review
By David Caplan, PhD Despite its importance as the ultimate gatekeeper of scientific publication and funding, peer review is known to engender bias, incompetence, excessive expense, ineffectiveness, and corruption. A surfeit of publications has documented the deficiencies of this system.[1-4] In September, the fifth in a series of international congresses concerned with how peer review […]
Infectious Disease News report misleading as to the efficacy of Cervarix vaccine against anal cancer
By Norma Erickson and Stephen Tunley In a recent article in Infectious Disease News[1]commenting on the research published in the latest issue of Lancet Oncology[2], Jason Harris reported: “There were 27 diagnosed HPV-related anal cancers in the vaccine group vs. 85 diagnoses in the control group, for a vaccine efficacy of 68.2% (95%GI, 51.4-79.7). For […]
