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The challenges to collecting accurate COVID-death statistics in SA
The number of “excess deaths” from COVID-19 are often angrily disputed. The SA Medical Research Council’s Prof Debbie Bradshaw, explains in an interview with...
The high costs to a medical watchdog of challenging bad science
Days after a mysterious new illness was declared a pandemic in March last year, a prominent French scientist announced he’d already found a cure...
Ivermectin papers show limitations of ‘inherently unreliable’ summary data
The The demand for COVID-19 treatments has created a demand for meta-analyses by systematic review — a process fraught with risk, as evidenced by...
Noakes: Iconic study hid findings, reached unjustifiable and possibly unethical conclusions
Emeritus Professor Tim Noakes, in a study published in the journal Open Heart, has criticised the authors of one of the most influential studies...