Es gibt ein neues Kapitel meiner Online-Methodenlehre, die ich seit 2011 immer wieder ergänze. Diesmal geht es um die „Fallstricke der nackten Zahlen“ am Beispiel der aktuellen Corona-Epidemie, bei der uns täglich in den Medien viele Zahlen begegnen, für die uns der notwendige Kontext fehlt, um sie einordnen zu können.
(18) Why the Hierarchical Model of the “Evidence… Some Introductory Thoughts on Understanding Our New Publication Walach, H., & Loef, M. (2015). Using a matrix-analytical approach to synthesizing evidence solved incompatibility problem in the hierarchy of evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 68, 1251-1260. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.03.027 Before I make a few critical remarks about "Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)", I feel…
The majority of treatment successes can be traced… Our meta-analysis on the placebo effect has been published [1] For quite some time now, I have been investigating a phenomenon that I find very curious: the improvement rates of patients in clinical trials who are in the treatment groups and those who are in the placebo groups are highly…
Meta-Review: The Backbone of Evidence Based Medicine Is Weak Do you now know, dear fact-checkers, science editors and other medical enthusiasts, why I am sceptical about the new, poorly vetted vaccination platforms? It's because of the data on medical interventions in general. Because by drawing a random sample here, our result can be generalized.
