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  1. Patient4Life

    Nobel Prize Winner Frances Arnold Retracts Paper, Here Is The Reaction By Bruce Y. Lee - Forbes (Jan 5, 2020)

    Nobel Prize Winner Frances Arnold Retracts Paper, Here Is The Reaction By Bruce Y. Lee - Forbes (Jan 5, 2020)
  2. Andy

    Opinion piece in Nature: A toast to the error detectors

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03909-2
  3. Lisa108

    Medscape article: "Psychiatrist Engaged in Research Misconduct, Says Gov't Watchdog"

    https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/923234?nlid=133271_3901&src=wnl_newsalrt_191230_MSCPEDIT&uac=302719CG&impID=2228388&faf=1 and it gets even worse...
  4. Sly Saint

    BMJ Article :Academic publishers urge Trump not to demand open access for federally funded research Dec 2019

    This article was originally behind a paywall. full text here: https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l7064?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=hootsuite&utm_content=sme&utm_campaign=usage
  5. Hoopoe

    Why is ME/CFS so neglected?

    Some of the commonly proposed explanations for the current lack of funding (of everything): Misogynism, because ME/CFS affects more women than men. Wessely and others said it's deconditioning and (basically) hypochondria and that's why people don't see a need to do biomedical research into...
  6. W

    Image Duplication Prevalent in biomedical papers (Elizabeth Bik)

    I thought some folks would be interested in the work of Elizabeth Bik who is a microbiome researcher now investigating research integrity & misconduct. She has found between 4-6% of biomedical papers have image duplication. Some are honest mistakes, others are blatant image manipulation...
  7. ladycatlover

    'Women have been woefully neglected': does medical science have a gender problem? Dec. 18, 2019, Nicola Slawson, The Guardian

    'Women have been woefully neglected': does medical science have a gender problem?
  8. Sly Saint

    ME/CFS Research Update: November 2019 Bedside Chat with Ben H. and Ron Davis

    thanks to @Ben H eta: youtube generated transcript pt 1
  9. rvallee

    An Alzheimer treatment: lecanemab (Biogen)

    Today, in ME headlines of the future: The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades Familiar themes: Almost feel like crying seeing those numbers and "woefully insufficient": I hope discussion of this makes an opening to make it known that the...
  10. Andy

    Invest in ME: UK Charity Pledges £500,000 for Research into ME in Norwich Research Park

    http://www.investinme.org/IIMER-PR-20191201.shtml
  11. Sly Saint

    The Guardian - Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? Nov 2019

    Interesting read. don't know if there is any way for people to show support to the creator of sci-hub? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science?CMP=share_btn_tw
  12. Sly Saint

    Towards an institute for patient-led research - Trish Greenhalgh, BMJ blog November 12, 2019

    Trish Greenhalgh is professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/11/12/trisha-greenhalgh-towards-an-institute-for-patient-led-research/ see also this thread...
  13. G

    Should ME organisations do more direct action to get more funding for ME research?

    The following posts have been moved or copied from this thread. With all due respect, don't you all think it's more important that orgs like MEAction be pressed on issues like taking more radical direct action (a la ACT UP) ensuring greater funding for this illness, than petition them about...
  14. Andy

    ME Association announces three new research grants, Oct 2019

    https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/10/mea-press-release-vital-new-research-could-lay-bare-the-cause-of-one-of-worlds-cruellest-illnesses-23-october-2019/
  15. John Mac

    NZ: Seminar: Update on research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Come along and hear about recent research that is informing guidance for management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Dr Eiren Sweetman from the University of Otago will overview recent key research findings from the US, Norway, Australia, and Otago...
  16. Simbindi

    Work is good for health: a thread to post and discuss the evidence for this statement

    I thought it might be good to have a thread where members can post and discuss the 'evidence' that governments and health insurers use to promote the idea that 'work is good for health'. This thread is for discussing the evidence for the general concept, rather than evidence specifically...
  17. John Mac

    Editorial: Advances in ME/CFS Research and Clinical Care. Friedman, Bateman, Bested, Nahle.

    From frontiers in Pediatrics https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00370/full
  18. J

    MS research versus ME/CFS research

    So the big European MS meeting just finished a couple of days ago. The scientific program book is 131 pages long for a three day meeting!! https://www.professionalabstracts.com/ectrims2019/programme-ectrims2019.pdf Why is there so much more MS research than MECFS research? Are there really...
  19. V

    Podcast on breaking paradigms in bioscience research

    I recently listened to this podcast episode by Malcolm Galdwell. It is about the researchers involved in the discovery of retroviruses and the paradigms they had to break through and how these scientist in the early days were thought to be crackpots. It is a story familar to any of us who follow...
  20. rvallee

    Unethical work must be filtered out or flagged (Nature)

    How about paying attention to the people negatively impacted by it? Unfortunately there is no process for that and the victims of such unethical research are often vilified and attacked openly, hence the current problem. Lots more work ahead. Blatantly unethical research is growing in some...
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