And, does “Mendelian Randomization” help answer this question? It is not uncommon for press reports of newly published studies in medicine, the social sciences, or economics, to describe a finding of a correlation between two variables as causative, that is, one variable causes the other. Often, the authors of the…
Read moreIntroduction As a geriatric psychiatrist, now mostly retired, I’ve been sceptical throughout my entire career about the existence of the entity labeled “schizophrenia”. And for many years, when the subject came up, I might tell bits and pieces of my relationship to this disorder. But the idea of putting this…
Read moreLetter to the Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, posted online 2018-12-15 as a response to the Editorial “Take turmeric with a grain of salt” by Kirsten Patrick and Matthew B. Stanbrook CMAJ October 29, 2018 190 (43) E1270; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.181358 Wow, I’m impressed! The CMAJ has really gone…
Read moreBig pharma has been taken to task on multiple occasions for selectively publishing studies showing benefits for their products and “burying” research with negative outcomes. So it’s surprising that there is now a trend to publish studies showing negative or null results. In fact, a journal specifically devoted to publishing…
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