john maddox prize

  1. Jonathan Edwards

    Maddox Prize again

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/01/misinformation-fuelled-by-tsunami-of-poor-research-says-science-prize-winner Read and enjoy the ironies. Apparently the message of a bad paper can now be spread through the internet - something that was never so before. Well, there was the Lancet.
  2. Andy

    2021 John Maddox Prize, nominations are open until 14th June 2021

    Nominations for the 2021 John Maddox Prize are open until 14 June. Find out more about how to make your nomination. The John Maddox prize is a joint initiative of the charity Sense about Science and the leading international scientific journal Nature. The Prize has been awarded annually since...
  3. Andy

    Sense about Science UK: Become an Ask for Evidence ambassador

    http://askforevidence.org/articles/ask-for-evidence-ambassador-launch
  4. Andy

    Evidence Week - Sense About Science

    http://senseaboutscience.org/activities/evidence-week-programme/ Am I right in thinking that Sense About Science, in the UK, are blind to the flaws of the PACE trial?
  5. Indigophoton

    Nominations for 2018 John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science

    http://senseaboutscience.org/activities/the-john-maddox-prize/ Shall we nominate David Tuller (if he's agreeable to the idea)?
  6. Sly Saint

    James Coyne - A sudden reversal of fortune for the biopsychosocial model of illness

    Following on from Nathalie Wrights article in the Independent. "Actually, I think this has been coming for a long time, but it just might have happened this morning in the UK online newspaper, The Independent. The public conversation has shifted about the biopsychosocial model of myalgic...
  7. Esther12

    Esther Crawley gets 'commendation' at 2017 Maddox Prize awards.

    I wonder if anyone from Sense About Science fancies trying to defend the SMILE trial? The judging panel consisted of Professor Colin Blakemore FRS, Tracey Brown OBE (Sense about Science), Sir Philip Campbell PhD (Nature) Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS, Natasha Loder (the Economist). The judges sat...
  8. Sly Saint

    Who is Simon Wessely?

    Jim Al-khalili’s subject in his ‘The Life Scientific’ programme on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, February 14, was Professor Sir Simon Wessely. I thought given the new research into ME and Gulf War Illness this would be of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dnr3g " Gulf War Syndrome. So...
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