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Does Hypertension Cause Cardiovascular Disease?

By Henry Olders 2023-09-09 Essays, Medicine, Opinions

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…

When medical research reports negative findings: follow the money!

By Henry Olders 2018-09-29 Essays, Medicine, Opinions 2 Comments

Big 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…