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Showing posts with label Junk Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junk Science. Show all posts
Sunday, April 21, 2024

An Expert Who Has Testified in Foster Care Cases Across Colorado Admits Her Evaluations Are Unscientific

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Eli Hager Propublica.com Originally posted 18 March 24 Diane Baird had spent four decades evaluating the relationships of poor families with...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Defining Their Own Ethics, Online Creators Are De Facto Therapists for Millions—Explosive Demand & Few Safeguards

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Tantum Hunter The Washington Post Originally posted 29 AUG 22 Here are two excerpts: In real life, mental health information and care are sp...
Friday, March 20, 2020

Flawed science? Two efforts launched to improve scientific validity of psychological test evidence in court

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Karen Franklin forensicpsychologist Blog Originally posted 15 Feb 20 Here is an excerpt: New report slams "junk science” psycholo...
Monday, March 9, 2020

The dangerous veneer of ‘science’

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Regini Rini Times Literary Supplement Originally posted Feb 20 "Race science” seems to be the hideous new trend of 2020. Last month...
Friday, October 18, 2019

The Koch-backed right-to-try law has been a bust, but still threatens our health

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Michael Hiltzik The Los Angeles Times Originally posted September 17, 2019 The federal right-to-try law, signed by President Trump in Ma...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Google bans ads for unproven medical treatments

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Megan Graham www.cnbc.com Originally posted September 6, 2019 Google on Friday announced a new health care and medicines policy that ban...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

How to Counter the Circus of Pseudoscience

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Lisa Pryor The New York Times Originally published January 5, 2018 Here are two excerpts: In the face of such doubt, it is not surpris...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

The Impenetrable Program Transforming How Courts Treat DNA

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Jessica Pishko wired.com Originally posted November 29, 2017 Here is an excerpt: But now legal experts, along with Johnson’s advocates...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Medical Evidence Debated

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Ralph Bartholdt Coeur d’Alene Press  Originally posted October 27, 2017 Here is an excerpt: “The point of this is not that he had a ch...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Court ruling on expert testimony could open door to junk science

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Andis Robeznieks AMA Wire Originally posted October 20, 2017 The New Jersey Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling soon that may af...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Inside the CIA's Black Site Torture Room

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Larry Siems The Guardian Originally posted October 9, 2017 Here is an excerpt: Jessen, who interrogated Rahman six times over a two-we...
Friday, October 6, 2017

AI Research Is in Desperate Need of an Ethical Watchdog

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Sophia Chen Wired Science Originally published September 18, 2017 About a week ago, Stanford University researchers posted online a stud...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Drug company faked cancer patients to sell drug

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Aaron M. Kessler CNN.com Originally published September 6, 2017 When Insys Therapeutics got approval to sell an ultra-powerful opioid fo...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Procedural ruling sets higher bar for expert-witness testimony

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Brendan Murphy AMA Wire Originally posted August 9, 2017 In a procedural decision that could keep so-called junk science out of the cour...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Predatory Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting

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By Neuroskeptic discovermagazine.com Originally published July 19, 2017 A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star W...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

How To Spot A Fake Science News Story

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Alex Berezow American Council on Science and Health Originally published January 31, 2017 Here is an excerpt: How to Detect a Fake Sci...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Fake news invades science and science journalism as well as politics

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By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus STAT News Originally published December 30, 2016 Here is an excerpt: Science itself never falls victim...
Friday, July 3, 2015

AMA is finally taking a stand on quacks like Dr. Oz

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By Julia Belluz Vox.com Originally posted June 13, 2015 Medical students and residents frustrated with bogus advice from doctors on TV h...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Rein It In, Dr Oz

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By Art Caplan MedScape Originally published April 30, 2015 Dr Mehmet Oz is in trouble again. He was accused by 10 physicians in a letter...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How.

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By John Bohannon i09 Originally published May 27, 2015 Here is an excerpt: Here’s a dirty little science secret: If you measure a larg...