Re: [Vo]:One more article that all should read...
MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/editors-world%E2%80%99s-most-prestigious-medical-journals-%E2%80%9Cmuch-scientific-literature-perhap Science education should continually reinforce the fact that integrity and morality are absolutely necessary for the scientific process to work… Let us not confuse mistakes with immorality. There have always been many mistakes in the scientific literature. I do not know whether they are more common today than in the past, but they were there. Granted, there has also always been corruption in research. I believe medical research and practice has always been especially prone to this. In Darrell Huff's cynical little masterpiece of a book, he described a medical test without enough control cases. It was a test of the polio vaccine with 450 children vaccinated and 680 unvaccinated. After an epidemic: Not one of the vaccinated children contracted a recognizable case of polio. . . . Neither did any of the controls. . . . At the usual rate, only two cases would have been expected in a group this size . . . He concludes: Many a great, if fleeting, medical discovery has been launched similarly. 'Make haste,' as one physician put it, 'to use a new remedy before it is too late. - How to Lie with Statistics (1954) Quite a number of treatments and practices common 20 years ago are no longer recommended, such as an EKG with every annual checkup. My doctor told me it produces more false positives and problems than useful information. - Jed
RE: [Vo]:One more article that all should read...
Hi Jed, I posted the article more in a general sense, but also thinking about what has gone on in the past with LENR/CF and Taleyarkin being persecuted and dealing with unscrupulous academics and politicians… I certainly did not mean to link it to what’s being discussed in the Parkhomov or Jiang work… -mark From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 3:02 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:One more article that all should read... MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/editors-world%E2%80%99s-most-prestigious-medical-journals-%E2%80%9Cmuch-scientific-literature-perhap Science education should continually reinforce the fact that integrity and morality are absolutely necessary for the scientific process to work… Let us not confuse mistakes with immorality. There have always been many mistakes in the scientific literature. I do not know whether they are more common today than in the past, but they were there. Granted, there has also always been corruption in research. I believe medical research and practice has always been especially prone to this. In Darrell Huff's cynical little masterpiece of a book, he described a medical test without enough control cases. It was a test of the polio vaccine with 450 children vaccinated and 680 unvaccinated. After an epidemic: Not one of the vaccinated children contracted a recognizable case of polio. . . . Neither did any of the controls. . . . At the usual rate, only two cases would have been expected in a group this size . . . He concludes: Many a great, if fleeting, medical discovery has been launched similarly. 'Make haste,' as one physician put it, 'to use a new remedy before it is too late. - How to Lie with Statistics (1954) Quite a number of treatments and practices common 20 years ago are no longer recommended, such as an EKG with every annual checkup. My doctor told me it produces more false positives and problems than useful information. - Jed
[Vo]:One more article that all should read...
Editors of World's Most Prestigious Medical Journals: Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/editors-world%E2%80%99s-most-presti gious-medical-journals-%E2%80%9Cmuch-scientific-literature-perhap Science education should continually reinforce the fact that integrity and morality are absolutely necessary for the scientific process to work. The most important endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for life. -Albert Einstein --- To Reverend C. Greenway, November 20,1950. Without 'ethical culture,' there is no salvation for humanity. -Albert Einstein---From The Need for Ethical Culture, January 5,1951. -mark iverson