Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Low-level lasers. Part 2. Erchonia and the universal panacea

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    In my last blogpost , I looked at a study that claimed continuing improvements of symptoms of autism after eight 5-minute sessions where...
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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Low-level lasers. Part 1. Shining a light on an unconventional treatment for autism

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  'Light enters, then a miracle happens, and good things come out!' (Quirk & Whelan, 2011*) I'm occasionally asked to inves...
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Sunday, 19 November 2023

Defence against the dark arts: a proposal for a new MSc course

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  Since I retired, an increasing amount of my time has been taken up with investigating scientific fraud. In recent months, I've becom...
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Thursday, 12 October 2023

When privacy rules protect fraudsters

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    I was recently contacted with what I thought was a simple request: could I check the Oxford University Gazette to confirm that a person,...
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Monday, 2 October 2023

Spitting out the AI Gobbledegook sandwich: a suggestion for publishers

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  The past couple of years have been momentous for some academic publishers. As documented in a preprint this week , after...
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Monday, 4 September 2023

Polyunsaturated fatty acids and children's cognition: p-hacking and the canonisation of false facts

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One of my favourite articles is a piece by Nissen et al (2016) called " Publication bias and the canonization of false facts ". I...