Friday Foolery #44. The Shortest Abstract Ever?
This is the shortest abstract I’ve ever seen: “probably not” With many thanks to Michelynn McKnight, PhD, AHIP, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State...
View ArticleExperience versus Evidence [1]. Opioid Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic auto-immune disease, which causes inflammation of the joints that eventually leads to progressive joint destruction and deformity. Patients have swollen, stiff...
View ArticleFriday Foolery #45. What have you got in your head?
What have you got in your head? I hope it is not Barley, Chilli, Hemp seeds, Candies, Black Rice, Food for canaries, Brain sandwich, Sugar or Hay. (No, are you nuts?) But these foods do make...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary Highlight HEALTH, ScienceRoll & Sterile Eye!
Starting a blog is easy. But maintaining a blog costs time and effort. Especially when having a job/while studying (and having a private life as well). This blog almost celebrates its 4th year...
View ArticleJeffrey Beall’s List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers, 2012 Edition
Perhaps you remember that I previously wrote [1] about non-existing and/or low quality scammy open access journals. I specifically wrote about Medical Science Journals of the...
View ArticleFriday Foolery #46 Bad Science: The Psychology Behind Exaggerated & False...
Very up-to-date infographic about Bad Science: it includes (or was inspired by?) the recent fraud by Diederik Stapel, a well-known psychologist in the Netherlands.(e.g. see NY Times.com (2011/11/03/)....
View ArticleFriday Foolery # 47 WTF, the True Spirit of Christmas
The true spirit of Christmas is in “loving” and to “do good for others”, “ thinking of” and “helping the less fortunate”. However, many of today’s children, weaned on luxury goods and gadgets,...
View ArticleGrand Rounds: Evolving from Link-♥♥ to ♬♫-Links?
Grand Rounds is “the weekly summary of the best healthcare writing online”. I’ve hosted this medical blog carnival twice and considered it a great honor to do so. I have submitted a lot of posts to the...
View Article“Pharmacological Action” in PubMed has no True Equivalent in OVID MEDLINE
Searching for EMBASE Subject Headings (the EMBASE index terms) for drugs is relatively straight forward in EMBASE. When you want to search for aromatase inhibitors you first search for the Subject...
View ArticleFriday Foolery #48 Brilliant Library Notices
Today’s Friday Foolery post is handed on a silver platter by my Australian friend Mike Cadogan @sandnsurf from Life in the Fast Lane Yes, aren’t these brilliant librarian notices from the Milwaukee...
View ArticleFriday Foolery #49: The Shortest Abstract Ever! [2]
In a previous Friday Foolery post I mentioned what I thought was the shortest abstract ever. ”Probably not”. But a reader (“Trollface”) pointed out in a comment that there was an even shorter (and...
View ArticleSilly Sunday #50: Molecular Designs & Synthetic DNA
As a teenager I found it hard to picture the 3D structure of DNA, proteins and other molecules. Remember we didn’t have a computer then, no videos, nor 3D-pictures or 3D models. I tried to fill the...
View ArticleHealth and Science Twitter & Blog Top 50 and 100 Lists. How to Separate the...
Recently a Top 100 scientists-Twitter list got viral on Twitter. It was published at accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog.* Most people just tweeted “Top 100 Scientists on Twitter”, others were excited to...
View ArticleWhat Did Deep DNA Sequencing of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) Really...
A recent study published in PLOS genetics[1] on a genetic audit of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) was widely covered in the news. The headlines are a bit confusing as they said different things....
View ArticleCan Guidelines Harm Patients?
Recently I saw an intriguing “personal view” in the BMJ written by Grant Hutchison entitled: “Can Guidelines Harm Patients Too?” Hutchison is a consultant anesthetist with -as he calls it- chronic...
View ArticleThe Scatter of Medical Research and What to do About it.
Paul Glasziou, GP and professor in Evidence Based Medicine, co-authored a new article in the BMJ [1]. Similar to another paper [2] I discussed before [3] this paper deals with the difficulty for...
View ArticleEven the Scientific American Blog Links to Spammy Online Education Affiliate...
On numerous occasions [1,2,3] I have warned against top Twitter and Blog lists spread by education affiliate sites. Sites like accreditedonlinecolleges.com, onlinecolleges.com, onlinecollegesusa.org,...
View ArticleFriday Foolery #51 Statistically Funny
Epidemiologists, people working in the EBM field and, above all, statisticians are said to have no sense of humor.* Hilda Bastian is a clear exception to this rule. I met Hilda a few years ago at a...
View Article#EAHIL2012 CEC 2: Visibility & Impact – Library’s New Role to Enhance...
This week I’m blogging at (and mostly about) the 13th EAHIL conference in Brussels. EAHIL stands for European Association for Health Information and Libraries. The second Continuing Education Course...
View Article#EAHIL2012 CEC 1: Drupal for Librarians
This week I’m blogging at (and mostly about) the 13th EAHIL conference in Brussels. EAHIL stands for European Association for Health Information and Libraries. I already blogged about the second...
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