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.
Measuring mindfulness with the FMI Our new version of the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI) with norm data from a representative German sample is now available (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40359-025-03671-3). When Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, became known in Germany at the end of the 1990s, I conducted some of the first scientific work on mindfulness…
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…
US Health Bureaucracy: Reorientation towards ‘Autoimmunity’ Admission of guilt by the American health bureaucracy regarding mistakes in coronavirus measures and reorientation towards ‘autoimmunity’ Personnel changes within the US health authorities have resulted in new priorities. Jay Bhattacharya has been director of the National Institutes of Health since 2025, the super-agency that conducts its own research and…
