por nmurcia | Oct 8, 2018 | NoGracias in english
The crisis in Cochrane is about the credibility of Cochrane and not a question concerning the “behaviour” by one individual. What is at stake is the prestige of Cochrane and the public´s faith in its work. It is a major mistake to personalize the crisis in Peter...
por nmurcia | Oct 6, 2018 | NoGracias in english
All of directors (31 out of 31) for the Ibero-American Cochrane Network believe that the regulatory mechanisms used to expel Peter Goetzche are not sufficiently developed and have been able to be used in an unbiased manner and without due guarantees. These...
por nmurcia | Sep 22, 2018 | NoGracias in english
Is Gøtzsche good or bad for science? That’s what Hilda Bastian asks herself in a recent post on her wonderful blog «Absolutely maybe». Hilda Bastian was also founder of Cochrane, like Gøtzsche, but left the organisation in 2012 because of some discrepancies with...
por nmurcia | Sep 17, 2018 | NoGracias in english
Trish Greenhalgh is an author to whom we have maximum respect for her methodological rigour, critical capacity and breadth of approaches. She has made an editorial comment about the Cochrane crisis which aims to be measured, complex and equidistant although what she...
por nmurcia | Sep 16, 2018 | NoGracias in english
After the serious crisis opened in Cochrane by the expulsion of Peter C. Gøtzsche and the resignation of four members of the Governing Board comes this proposal from people in the critical environment of the organization. State of play: proposals for Annual General...
por nmurcia | Sep 11, 2018 | NoGracias in english
(1) Influenza vaccine is a short term vaccine. You need to repeat it no because the change of the virus every year but because the short effectiveness (from 2 to 5 months). In some in some years we have repeat exactly the same vaccine; «For 2014–15, U.S.-licensed...
