In the 19th century, phrenology was viewed as a respected science that based its findings on measurements of the skull to determine a person’s character and mental capacity. Few follow phrenology today. Contemporary neuroscience utilizes brain scans to detect correlations between the body and the brain. Yet, both sciences lack explanatory power when it comes […]
Internal critics claim bias distorts medical research
GUEST BLOG POST: Tony Lobl, my colleague in the UK, provides an insightful commentary on an article in the November issue of The Atlantic magazine. “Are 90% of all medical studies wrong — including nearly half of those claimed to be the most reliable? That’s the provocative claim made by researcher John Ioannidis, profiled in […]