It’s probably not a mere fairy tale. A researcher publicly criticized in detail some of his own published studies. (Frenzied mobs might now appear to criticize that criticism — presumably this researcher would more or less welcome such efforts.) Todd B. Kashdan, Associate Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, writes in Psychology Today: Let […]
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Improbable medical research about Christmas
A revisit to the medical literature: A Collection of Christmas Science, Part 1 and Part 2. (Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for reminding us about our own files, which we are all too prone to forget. There’s more buried in those files…)
A cheerfully depressing investigation: “Which Placebo to Cure Depression?”
This study pokes a pointed stick into lots of questions about medicine, science, and scholarship. The lead author writes (in a note to us) that “It addresses a paradox in modern medicine: antidepressants are often considered to be mere placebos [1] despite the fact that meta-analyses are able to rank them [2]: it follows that it […]
The ever-intriguing Twist of Consumer Research
Heads turn when they see the phrase “Contact: Mary-Ann Twist” on a press release, because the minds in the brains in many of those heads know there’s a good chance the press release heralds a new discovery reported in the pages of The Journal of Consumer Research. Mary-Ann Twist is managing editor of same. Here […]