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Is Gøtzsche good or bad for science? Bastians, Greenhalghs and Moynihans vs Healys, Smiths and Godlees. The radicality demanded by the «GIGO effect». By Abel Novoa
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 its...
Greenhalgh is wrong about Cochrane crisis: it´s about science and democracy, not damage control
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...
Cochrane regeneration
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...
INFLUENZA/FLU VACCINES. INFORMATION FOR PATIENTS AND PROFESSIONALS. By Juan Gérvas
(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...